Word: polemicize
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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...
Finally, although this supplement is written as a civil polemic against youth culture lifestyle politics, it would be a great mistake to take the theme of the piece as an equation of the New Left with Fascism. That canard was used opportunistically by Senior Faculty several years ago and seems...
Mayakovsky had joined the Bolshevik party at thirteen; been arrested and jailed for subversive activity by fifteen; and emerged from prison at sixteen determined to become a poet. In 1910, he entered a recently formed Futurist circle, much influenced by Marinetti and the Italians. But from the beginning the Russian...
Mr. Nwafor has great sport with my name. To invoke the street dialect, one can ask: nwafor, whafoah? Because he has been stung by my letter and with a flurry of auto-didact learning ("It is not that I believe with Tolstoy...") and some cheap polemic ("rigid cold war stance...