Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entitles its citizens to work themselves into a moral froth over office fellatio. America's vast First World privilege also means that its scandals are infinitely less dangerous to the man and woman in the street. America's samurai of opinion scream at one another on talk shows; political argument in Rwanda means a million people hacked to pieces by machetes...
...opportunity presents itself, because a piece is specifically referred to by an interviewee or is explicitly autobiographical, Hoban breezes over the moment by claiming that the work is self-explanatory. Of course, if Basquiat's work were so literal and simpleminded, then Hoban would be correct in her implicit argument that Basquiat is more significant as a representative of his times than he is as an artist, that his art work is valid only because of the hyper, rebellious lifestyle that produced it, that Basquiat is more interesting for what he destroyed than what he created...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...
...this specific instance, I truly believe I was wrong. The argument may have been well-supported, but its fundamental premise was misguided. True, if Ellison hadn't opened his big mouth, my illusions of self-confidence probably would have lasted a little longer. But academic argument is not about self-confidence; it's about unearthing that thing we call Truth--that which...
...Freud raises an argument and Lewis attempts to answer it," Nicholi said. "Lewis serves as a spokesperson for the specific world view that Freud attacks...