Word: argumentative
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...you’ll strike back with the argument that music, as entertainment, doesn’t necessitate the exploration and growth that I speak of. Pop music can simply exist in the forms it’s already discovered; if the Beatles are a good band, which none would deny, why should a band that writes songs a great deal like the Beatles be discounted? In the prologue to his “Aetia,” the Hellenistic poet Callimachus recounted how the god Apollo came to him when he started off as a poet, and warned...
...question is whether we need more of this,” you say, and you use the word “need” with absolutely no irony or self-parodic intent. I don’t want to get into a political-economic argument here, but under the free-market capitalistic system, there is no question as to whether or not we “need” more art: the answer is resolutely...
Ironically, no persuasive argument can be made for extending these provisions, precisely because the Act itself requires no reporting to Congress or the courts regarding its own effectiveness; no real evidence can be offered in support of its renewal. The structure and content of the Act itself, however, are enough to make the correct course clear. At a time when the United States is trying to posture as the palladium of freedom and limited government around the world, it makes little sense to renew a law that undermines those principles in our own country—the very principles that...
...Republican argument that judges aren't usually blocked before coming to a vote: "To have these senators-and my favorite is Orrin Hatch-stand up righteous and indignant and say this has never happened before is an absolute...
Here are four views of what occurred on and after Aug. 6, 1945. Not four sides of an argument, but four perspectives on a reality. The first view is that of a survivor of the bombing who is now the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. What he saw was the suffering of people and the destruction of a city. The second view is that of a physicist who witnessed the first successful nuclear chain-reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942, worked on the Bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory and flew in the yield-measuring instrument plane beside...