Word: polemicize
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There are a few flashes of wit ("Malraux is Hemingway grown up") and polemic ("the liberal temperament's besetting weakness is parochialism"). More typically, though, he writes of Thucydides n words that might have come from the Pentagon itself. Later he asserts that 'Tolstoy is a very large...
By far the greatest number were aging Eastern European propagandists and journalists, who hardly seemed threats to anyone.* In Corsica, touted by French tourist agents as "the Isle of Beauty," the involuntary vacationers found themselves ensconced in resort hotels opened, by police order, a month before the normal tourist season...
Thus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saluted the new nation across the seas. In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger...
What passes for news is a massive daily dose of party propaganda, dished out dully: party directives and pep talks, party speeches, party promotion lists, party comings and goings, party polemic and praise. Since Stalin's death, the propaganda dose has been sweetened somewhat in a calculated effort to...
By this time, members of the Veritas Committee had made themselves unpopular in both University and Massachusetts Halls. Though often well documented, their letters assumed a belligerent tone; when their efforts to elicit certain information were frustrated, the Veritas group resorted to polemic. Realizing their position and wanting to continue...