Word: argumentativeness
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...significance. This [...] motif merits our closer examination—first because it is a figure which recurs throughout the literature of this period and second, because the ‘old child’ represents these Southern Renaissance writers need to dramatize the bitter argument that rages within them...
When Hamilton Porter, the tubby, red-headed catcher from The Sandlot, entered into an insult competition with Phillips, captain of the crosstown rival team, some of the best verbal abuse in the history of sports movies ensued. The argument culminated with the ultimate low blow from Ham: “You play ball like a girl.” Ouch...
...respond to Jesse Jackson’s letter, writing that he shared protestors’ “abhorrence of apartheid.” But the president continued to defend his argument that taking a political stance on an issue would compromise Harvard’s independence as an educational institution. In speeches and subsequent letters to the community, Bok continued to state that it was inappropriate for a university to engage in politics or become a moral watchdog...
According to Mendelsohn, “the second and most compelling” argument for a test ban was that nuclear testing increased tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was also testing nuclear weapons at the time. Mendelsohn said each nation would respond to the other’s tests by trying to do something “bigger or better...
...December, 40 members of Tocsin participated in a walk in which they passed around “a very sophisticated argument about the test ban,” Gitlin said. They asked Tocsin sympathizers to show their support openly by donning blue armbands...