Word: polemicized
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The aim is to show 19th century taste as it was, not as it ought, in the eyes of a retrospective modernism, to have been. Orsay, one feels, was right to include the work of these heroic flatterers and contaminated virtuosos. Not only are they better than we once thought...
UNFORTUNATELY, Bennett is probably right when he states that he has "more affinity with the views of the American people than most of my academic colleagues." After all, there are a lot of people--and potential voters--who hate Harvard and love simplistic attacks upon college education. Pundits speculate that...
It seems reasonable to expect those who wish to engage in polemic to get their facts straight. When the wager of a polemic is a journalist, such a responsibility seems all the more incumbent. A "Brass Tacks" piece by Steven Lichtman entitled "Our Shantytown," whose salient point was that SASC...
Which is not to say it's short on poetry itself. Clinton has a sloganeer's knack for engineering mischievous, provocative lyrics. His songs intersperse sexual double entendres with street-talk to round out an informed polemic. The "message" of SOMBJAF--unlike that of Grandmaster Flash--transcends the ghetto cliches...
This thriller carries heavy baggage: encomiums from Nobel Laureates Saul Bellow and Czeslaw Milosz. But Richard Lourie is equal to the burden. First Loyalty has a compelling cast and a labyrinthine plot that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny...