Word: polemicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the German-built steel mill near Cairo and even the star belly dancer at the Nile Hilton who, in...
Cold War Frontier. The main carryover from the earlier stories that Cornwell built up in Spy is not a character but an atmosphere: grubby realism and moral squalor, the frazzled, fatigued sensitivity of decent men obliged to betray or kill others no worse than themselves. Cornwell said recently: "I chose...
Cool Consideration. Nonetheless, Silent Spring was a runaway bestseller and an extremely effective polemic that stirred fierce argument, from village councils to the halls of Congress. Laws were proposed on local, state and federal levels to put rigid restrictions on the use of pesticides. Some of them were so sweeping...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power.
"I made this picture to point up the laxity of Japanese kidnaping laws," Kurosawa says. Japanese law makes kidnaping a popular crime, since a conviction brings a sentence of only one to ten years if the victim is returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins...