Word: soapboxes
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...honorable U.S. custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog rhetoric. What too often happens, and Zoot Suit is a case in point, is the reduction of the stage to a soapbox and the meaningless ritual of preaching to the already converted...
...given the required two-year notice of its intention to withdraw but the fact that it actually did so shocked even some Western diplomats. The primary U.S. condition for rejoining is that the I.L.O. get off its political soapbox, but the Administration left specific terms for renewed membership undefined. Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall said that the U.S. would return "when the I.L.O. is again true to its proper principles"-a statement that the Administration could interpret just about any way it wants...
...Carter Administration now, nor even George Meany?seriously wants the U.S. to pull out of the I.L.O., at least permanently. Critics do see a threatened U.S. withdrawal as a prod for necessary reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political soapbox. There is a dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti-U.S. rhetoric at I.L.O. annual meetings does not, in the view of even its harshest critics, undo...
...explain the boat's poor performance. Despite their lengthy trials, Independence crew members appear inexperienced, tangling themselves in tricky maneuvers and performing routine tasks with little dash and less speed. Unlike North, Hood stays at the helm, and unlike Turner, he does not use it as a soapbox, never shouting at an erring crewman. "I'm slower and more easygoing," Hood explains. "I never gamble unless I'm sure the odds are 3 to 1 in my favor. I'm more of a percentage sailor...
...oratorically opulent as he was four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system and drives many elderly persons into poverty and despair...