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Word: polemicized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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For months the taunt as well as the talk of Paris, Dutourd's book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: J'Accuse, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

This insistence that learning craves response, however imperfectly put, is the best contribution in i.e. It will come up later in considering alternatives to present methods; the trouble with this polemic issue of i.e. was that it did not study other ways. Even so, its blunderbuss onslaught was useful in...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

The last issue of i.e. is little like the preceding six. There is less polemic about it. Convinced against convincing, the editors say, "We have composed our final issue of drawings, stories, and poems, hoping to entertain you." They do, although entertainment didn't seem their first intent.

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: i.e. | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

First of all, it should be noted that the co-signers of this letter represent various political views, and write in a spirit of strict nonpartisanship. Events of the past two weeks leave neither room nor time for narrow partisan polemic. Liberation for Hungary is an issue to which all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNGARY | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

Chicago's Patroness of Arts Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that The Egghead and I (a collection of "essays, satirical verse and excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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