Word: polemicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"The day your so-called meeting takes place will be the day you step into your grave," the Chinese taunted in a letter to the Soviets. "But since you have made up your mind, you will most probably call it anyway. Otherwise, by breaking your word, would you not become...
Sir: The immediacy that both Faulkner and the race problem have for Southerners constrains us from reading Faulkner as a polemic for the 1964 "civil rights" bill. Indeed, you have read into Faulkner a conclusion that a thorough study does not warrant. I find in Faulkner a neurotic impasse between...
From the start, National Review's polemic spirit, bolstered by its editor's intellectual bravura, was a rallying point for those who subscribed to the Buckley brand of "radical conservatism." In its pages, such conservative spokesmen as Russell (Conservative Mind) Kirk, Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (Conservatism...
Home Crusades. The anti-Jewish polemic was not uncommon to the militant and quite intolerant 12th century British church, which had already sent two crusades against infidels, and under Richard the Lionhearted was raising a third. Zealous Christians, certain that the Last Judgment was just around the corner, and eager...
JEFFERSON AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, by Leonard Levey. The thesis of this well-documented polemic is that Jefferson was not the civil libertarian he has been made out to be. He was not above suspending freedoms when it suited his purpose, and to enforce his unpopular embargo, he, in effect, made...