Word: polemicism
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Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to...
With the friendly relations of so many nations in the balance last week, the German foreign office issued an inevitable denial. But no steps were taken against Correspondent Knickerbocker. Organs friendly to the German government did not flay him. One bitter government critic, Nationalist Deputy Axel Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into...
Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board...
"Our proposed list must not resolve itself into a journalistic, polemic affair. It must be done with serious intentions. Every one must state exactly the reasons why he gave preference to a foreign motor car in order that these reasons may be studied and weighed.
It was, of course, to be expected that the wet propagandist would misconstrue President Lowell's recent article on Reconstruction and Prohibition. There is little in it to justify their attempts to use its as a polemic. It is judicial in tone and shows an ability to see two sides...