Word: soapboxing
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...Strike!" and Golden Boy suggests the apotheosis of sentimentalism--or else a bad musical with Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks of Odets as a great dialogue writer, which he was, or as a creator of remarkably distinctive characters, which he was also. We think of him as a soapbox in possession of a typewriter...
...Like the soapbox, Odets has fallen into disuse. So, if nothing else, the Charles Playhouse is performing a small historical service in reviving the first, and what many consider the best, of Odets's plays, Awake and Sing...
...show hits 17 stations. William F. Buckley Jr., on 20 stations, commands one of the more intelligent talk shows. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is a regular chatterbox on local TV, joshing away with Pierre Salinger or George Jessel, and Comic Mort Sahl has found a Los Angeles TV soapbox from which to harangue an avid following with his prophecies of Armageddon...
...only proved a top student, but found time to star on the wrestling, boxing and swimming teams, and become captain of the rifle and pistol squad as well as cadet battalion commander in the ROTC. He also got his first taste of political activism. Ferdie took to the soapbox to comment acidly on everything from the curriculum to the policies of the Philippines' first President, Manuel Quezon...
...David Olgivy is not on a soapbox, nor will he probably ever be television reform's darling. He is, first and last, a successful businessman with an admittedly enormous material ambition. He refuses to advertise on billboards not only because they ruin the landscape but because they are not effective. He says he cannot conceive of anyone going into an industry not wanting to be president. And though one could easily say of him that he is a man of integrity, he is also one of practicality, professionalism, and the wary warmth of experience that becomes one who has been...