Word: polemicizes
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It's a wonder the modern world can find a place for Alan Bennett. In an age of braying, he whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The...
I should say that this column is not meant to be a China-bashing polemic. We should take heart when China’s rulers move toward codifying private property rights and allow Chinese Christians to celebrate Christmas, both of which they did last month. We should applaud and encourage...
I'm afraid scientists have not invented a machine capable of desensitizing Mr. Franken. Nor Bill O'Reilly, Michael Moore, Ann Coulter, Molly Ivins, Laura Ingraham and the rest of the authors and TV and radio hosts divided by beliefs but united by a common employer: the burgeoning American anger...
Eisner: Fagin started a number of years ago when I was looking through the European mythologies, faerie tales and so forth, and it struck me that there was a thread of stereotype in all of those. And I believe strongly that there's nothing wrong with stereotype. Stereotype has been...
Mertz's success as an author came like a machine gun as well. Her talent surfaced early, while she was growing up in Oak Park, Ill. Called on to write a sonnet in high school, she produced something so professional that her teacher suspected her of plagiarism. When she took...