Word: polemicize
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In the Czech capital Jakobson built his reputation as a linguist and his researches resulted in scores of important monographs. He mixed crudite dissertations with vitriolic polemic against the rising Nazi Party. Later, when the Germans invaded his adopted country, Jakobson, who was then living in Brno, became a refugee...
By the end of the century, however, religious passions and preaching zeal had cooled. The Quakers, no longer persecuted as before, had begun to seem useful and highly stable citizens. In 1694, only three years after Fox's death, the Friends who edited and published the Journal of his...
First there is the system of disagreeing totally with tea instructor and his approach to the course. If we are dealing with a liberal professor, the correctly composed exam for the virtually uninformed should sound like the outraged bellows of the mossback, while the exam written for a conservative lecturer...
Yet, out of this tangle, surrounded by polemic and emotion, three crucial questions take form: first, why is the stabilization machinery necessary anyway; second, is the pattern taken by the steel dispute proceedings--deadlock and seizure--inevitable under the present controls setup; and third, why have the stabilizers been unable...
The Challenge. One fine lazy spring morning last week, as De Gasperi strolled through the woods with his dog, his secretary brought disturbing news. Negotiations for a solid anti-Communist alliance in next month's municipal elections in southern Italy were collapsing. The monarchists, probably the third largest party...