Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been assailed for mishandling the Amerasia case (although the report slipped lightly over the refusal of Amerasia Editor Philip Jaffe to testify for fear of possible self-incrimination). The report also urged a careful restudy of the principle of congressional immunity, which gave Joe McCarthy his libel-proof soapbox...
...Greene has not used the theater as a soapbox. He has successfully presented a complex problem without long, impassioned speeches; his dialogue is terse and understated. Voices are raised only four or five times during the evening. And time is taken to give a complete picture of the characters' lives. This leisure may annoy those theatre-goers who expect rapid exposition and geometric relevance of every line to the ultimate "point" of the play. But the play would be much less powerful if it were otherwise. For example, it is important that the emptiness of the major's marriage...
...Soapbox. In one year, he addressed some 115 open-air meetings for the Independent Labor Party. "Sometimes I carried the soapbox," Attlee recalls, "sometimes' I stood on it-and sometimes I got knocked...
...month ago, when the two of them arrived in Britain for Maxim's go at the light-heavyweight title, Kearns got on his soapbox as soon as the Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton. "Joey," he proclaimed, "takes a punch better than any fighter I ever handled, and that goes for both Dempsey and Walker." Without much doubt, 174-lb. Joey Maxim had been underrated too long. What the trade knows as a "spoiler," i.e., a clever boxer who enjoys making less refined punchers look like chumps, he has taken a lot of the bounce out of better-known heavyweights...
...show proved that Levine was certainly a lively painter. His composition was clever and his colors bright. Occasionally, when the editorial mood hit him too hard, he began wagging his brush. Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said...