Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. It does need multilateral diplomacy. The mere existence of the U.N. sometimes makes a settlement possible because nations that will not yield an inch before their next-door neighbor will beat a retreat more gracefully in response to an appeal from the U.N. It gives the Communists a soapbox, but it also provides small nations with a useful forum for world debate; at its best, it gives everyone a court of appeal before the bar of world opinion...
...Stations Everyone!" It is difficult to believe, in 1955, how casual were the beginnings of the Soviet nightmare. In late February 1917, hoodlums, soapbox orators and strikers swirled through the streets of Petrograd. By a kind of spontaneous combustion, troops joined the demonstrators and fired on the police. Anarchy and heady illusion were in the air: "Ahead everything was completely different, unknown, wonderful . . . Surely all this was an illusion, nonsense, all a dream. Wasn't it time to wake...
Died. Robert Semple, 82, veteran member of New Zealand's Labor Party, longtime (1935-49) Minister of Public Works in the Labor government, famed for his vigorous, salty soapbox oratory; in New Plymouth, New Zealand. A lover of invective, Semple stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1938 by referring to Hitler and Mussolini as "mad dogs," once defended himself against a charge that he was making unfair profits out of Australian building interests by commenting: "I haven't enough assets in Australia to build a toilet for a cockroach...
...Soapbox Y. Salon. It is startling to recall that Wilde, whose works read like period pieces, and Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity...
...Sayonara, James (tales of the South Pacific} Michener mounts a soap opera on a soapbox. Placing his latest novel in Japan, he has rescored Puccini's Madame Butterfly for strings, brass, airplanes, and a social conscience. His latter-day Lieut...