Word: soapboxing
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...since In the Mix will continue to appear in your weekly edition of Crimson Arts, only with different writers. (It’s nice to have started what one hopes will be a regular part of this paper.) Time for me to graduate, which means time to lose this soapbox, so pardon me while I launch into nostalgic reverie. Yeah, I’m ending not with a bang but a whimper. May is the cruellest month...
...windows, frequent chants and marches, etc.), the choice to “show support” by preventing students from suffering the consequences of their actions—using an ideological test to confer a pedagogical benefit—is clearly inappropriate. Professors may use their lectern as a soapbox, but not their grading sheet...
...Brooks, the show is about more than that. This onetime combat engineer in the European theater in World War II is still satirizing Hitler, without apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across...
Friends say Summers is unlikely to use the Harvard presidency as a soapbox for electoral politics. Having already served as secretary of the Treasury, he's already "been to the top" of his field, Podesta said...
...Hungarian emigre Nicholas Morath is drawn ever deeper into clandestine missions he doesn't understand to stop his country's drift into collaboration with the Nazis. Though Furst sees himself as a political novelist, he has chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil of power, the preaching is subtle, the moral left...