Word: polemicize
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Odets' polemic, a series of personal, middle-class tragedies and individual dislocations, evokes the darkness and anger of 1935. Rosaldo, who understood the stock figures he had to work with, decided to type-cast his actors and let them exaggerate their characters. The result is some fine gusto on the...
Nothing Personal. In this atmosphere, Daily Editor Gary Althen, 21, this fall allowed Carl Mitcham, 26, a late-blooming philosophy student, to publish a polemic calling Goldwater "a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal." Campus conservatives informed Goldwater. President Newton apologized. Unsatisfied, Goldwater wrote a...
With a less prepossessing dramatis personae, more careful attention to garnering substance instead of polemic, and a layout more dramatic and attractive, Y.P. may succeed in proving its fundamental objective a sound one. For the moment, it has poured a stinking and vinagery old wine into a new, blue bottle...
The whisky tenor is unmistakable. To the late H. L. Mencken, iconoclastic polemic was the choicer part of criticism. His aim was to high-browbeat "the populace" with a club: to fight American Gothic, Mencken became the great American Goth. All of this, and more, is made pleasantly apparent in...
The Grove Press announced last week that it would publish Henry Miller's polemic 27-year-old book, The Tropic of Cancer, for the first time in the United States on June 24. Reaction in Cambridge has been so strong that several book stores in the Square have already put...