Word: soapboxing
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...attainable goals could be the death of dogmatism in China. But, as University of Michigan Sinologist Alexander Eckstein notes, "We are still far from out of the woods with China." In other words, the men from Peking should be good for several spectacular seasons at the glass-and-steel soapbox in Manhattan...
...that the cops are quick to interrupt I.W.W. rallies even while the Salvation Army is attracting large crowds just across the street. Demanding an explanation, Hill is informed that the Army has the right to assembly because they are performing music. The next time Joe Hill appears on a soapbox he has his own I.W.W. song in hand -set to the tune of a Salvation Army hymn. People gather around and the police are temporarily thwarted. In another town, Joe goes into a restaurant and deliberately orders a lavish meal that he cannot pay for! Banished to the kitchen...
...standard for the genre. The prose is an illiterate shorthand: "Lou was a tall, thin man with a sleepy face whose dominating feature was seventy Sy Devore suits." The plot is interstitched with editorials, sermons and lessons in writing. On the latter subject one can hardly deny Uris his soapbox. He has always been a crude novelist. Yet Exodus is the sixth biggest bestselling novel of the century,* and QB VII, after wintering comfortably atop all the charts, is now second only to Exodus in the author's hardback sales...
...ASSIGNMENT of responsibility in a chaotic situation, however, is often difficult. In Feiner us. New York (1950), the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a speaker for disorderly conduct on the grounds that his soapbox talk inflamed his audience to the point of violence. Feiner was speaking to a racially mixed audience and "gave the impression that he was endeavoring to arouse the Negro people against the whites, urging that they rise up in arms and fight for equal rights." When an aroused member of the audience told a police officer at the scene, "If you don't get that...
...sculptor and how to pay the bills that wouldn't wait. "I got very good at pathetic letters." She moved to Japan in 1961; during her two years there she had her first artistic success in a show of her "chug" sculpture-bits of scrap representing soapbox-derby cars. She also met Sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. They returned to New York, where Kate began teaching-first at Hunter, then at Barnard-and working on her Ph.D. at Columbia. She lived with Fumio for a year, and "for what it's worth, being committed to each other and loving each...