Word: polemicize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In a way, the book has made Millett the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation. That is the sort of description she and her sisters despise, for the movement rejects the notion of leaders and heroines as creations of the media?and mimicry of the ways that men use...
And the choice rules out, of course, all possibilities of argument. It is either or. Either the revolutionary has nothing to say to the oppressor or he is already assimilated. syncretized, digested as an alien but allowed point of view, to be heard but not listened to. For the same...
He is equally impatient with computer deism, vomiting forth the new program music in demotic algebra, as with the auto-intoxicating retrograde "modernism" of emotional self-indulgence. He especially abhors the composer-as-publicist, who spins a new notation and broadside for each new work, who strews the years with...
Music is being strangled by mechanisms or swirled to pieces by epiphanic happenings. His conclusion is that those who toil most glamorously at self-conscious modernity are those who have the least chance for valuable contribution. Integrity and "modernity," separate from formal exploration, are antagonistic. The past lives in the...
This argument contains a measure of truth. It is also true that in many cases the massed forces of dissent-as at most of last week's rallies mourning the Kent State four-have demonstrated a commendable restraint in not letting verbal protest build into violence. The fact remains...