Word: soapboxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expecting a bonanza of Socialist sympathy. With him, flashing the three-fingered salute of the P.P.P.. was his Minister of Education; an Oxford-educated Negro named Linden Forbes Burnham. The pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed by Lyttelton's handling of other colonial revolts...
...Soapbox. The addition of soap operas to American culture has been under constant attack for years. To every complaint, the soapmakers have a crisply pragmatic answer: they are written as they are because that is what their audience wants. When asked what he thinks of his soap operas, P. & G.'s President McElroy, no steady listener himself, is apt to get up on one of his own soapboxes: "The problem of improving the literary tastes of the people is the problem of the schools. The people who listen to our programs aren't intellectuals - they're ordinary...
Both Farmer and Marshall got interested in the Rosenbergs through correspondence with a professional soapbox orator and left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles. Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument. Its gist: the Rosenbergs were wrongly sentenced under the Espionage Act of 1917, which allows the judge to fix the death penalty; they should have been sentenced under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which provides the death penalty for atomic espionage only when a jury so recommends...
...critic mounts the soapbox," wrote Poet John Peale Bishop, "the garbage remains in the streets." He might just as well have been talking about soapbox novelists...
Chosen Country spraddles some 80-odd years of American life (1848-1930), but ;he only ground it really covers is from soapbox to soap opera and back. To hold that ground, Dos Passos mobilizes a small army of characters, chief among them Jay Pignatelli...