Word: polemicize
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It would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals...
I would stand firmly on the apostolic recognition that there are ''varieties of gifts but the same Spirit and varieties of service but the same Lord." There are multitudes whom Mr. Graham may reach who are not now and never will be touched by a more sophisticated interpretation...
In America, established at Princeton University as lecturer in the humanities, Mann carried on the fight against "Europe's Dark Age." He wrote polemic pamphlets, lectured with a certain dry sententiousness, and broadcast to Germany. His books were translated and were bestsellers. It did not seem to matter that...
Over in Harvard's Lamont Library, a few feet from a photographic exhibition which includes Bob Cochran's game-winning catch against Yale, is a small, blue book entitled "The Dacay of Buildogism." In this, the 25th anniversary of its publication, the year that the Yale News suspends Saturday's...
"The responsibility to externals which caused this atrophy (of the artist submerged in an academic society) is in fact the irresponsibility of the individual to himself." This quotation from the foreword indicates the polemic aim of i.e., The Cambridge Review, now in its second issue. The polemic, however, is not...