Word: polemicized
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Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His...
Like his better-known friend Vespignani, Muccini is a working Communist, but he does not paint to propagandize. "I want an art which is tied to life," he says. "At the same time I don't want to make it polemic. My pictures have a social content, not a...
The U.S. Ambassador is elderly (73), stout (200 Ibs. on a 5 ft. 10½ in. frame), genial-jowled, courtly and oracular in an oldtime way. He is no shaft of lightning in extempore debate. He can bumble well-meaningly as he did during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he...
For the past ten months, the U.S. has been buying, borrowing and talking about a volume popularly called "the Blanshard book." American Freedom and Catholic Power by Manhattan Lawyer-Journalist Paul Blanshard is a well-organized polemic against the Roman Catholic Church. Written from an aggressively secular point of view...
Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk...