Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suffice it to say that this represents only the thinnest, topmost fuel for ad hominem attacks that The Longest War's incredible pomposity provides. The book's argument, or at least what one intuits is supposed to represent the argument, is far less substantial. Its basic premise reads "Menachem Begin is unbalanced," and "deep inside himself [Ariel] Sharon has reserved a war for Israel." Beyond this, Timerman follows the classic Vietnam scenario of an insidious bureaucracy intervening between the people and the demonic leadership, while managing a war no one wants. He supports this argument with one nebulous assertion after...
...dramatically, did "The Two Cultures," the title of a 1959 Cambridge lecture. Snow decried the willful ignorance of humanists about science and the chasm between arts and technology. The speech drew worldwide attention, including a scathing ad hominem attack by Cambridge Don F.R. Leavis. Snow's argument no longer seems controversial because it has been so generally accepted: it is important for humanists and everyone else to know what scientists are doing...