Word: polemicize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His proudest moment probably came eight years ago, when Hoffa was convicted in federal court of jury tampering (there was subsequent conviction for fraud). Sheridan wants the nation to remember the judge's pronouncement at that time: Hoffa, the court declared, was guilty of "having tampered, really, with the...
Yet, despite all the passion and polemic, the symbols continue to endure and prevail. Imperfect, wide open to charges of hypocrisy and misrepresentation, they manage to reain enormous emotional significance. The vast majority of Americans cannot and will not reject the flag, the anthem or the pledge. It would be...
The Woolfs, who married in 1912, remained affectionate companions and social allies throughout the years. With one simple printing machine they established a publishing house, the Hogarth Press. Virginia became an able compositor. As a writer she received a consistently good press, and because her novels were so close to...
THE FRENCH NEW WAVE lost its steam in the mid-sixties, when the experiments of the early part of the decade began to turn into repetition on the one hand and polemic on the other. Chabrol churned out Chabrols and Truffaut, Truffauts. Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave Godard politics. No one...
This so enraged the coach that in one post-game polemic, he informed the boys, "Half this game is 90 per cent mental." Valenzuela pointed out to his mentor that that amounted to only 45 per cent. "Maybe if we could hit and field, we'd win once and a...