Word: polemicizes
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For better or for worse, Spender realized early on "that the poet is, amongst other things, a man who has to have another job, tired, overburdened, who cannot live on his poetry and who is in danger of clinging to it out of self-esteem." For almost half a century...
This is a polemic, although the author does not alert the reader to the argument on the other side. His approach leads to a hermetic absorption with words as objects rather than signs pointing outward-precisely the premise that makes so much "experimental" writing so ghastly and unreadable. Gass also...
Moreover, the present controversy over the administration and enforcement of Affirmative Action should not be confused with the objectives of Asian Americans now working with the Admissions Office. The revelations inherent in the clarifications and guidelines of Affirmative Action programs are but one argument in the case against long-standing...
At first glance Kearns seems to be coming from a different perspective. She writes in the opening of her book that she co-authored an essay for the New Republic about how to remove LBJ shortly before coming to work in the White House in 1967. That essay, however, accuses...
I was pleased to read Peter Ferrara's essay in yesterday's Crimson and surprised that you were objective enough to print it. There are many of us in the Harvard community who feel that affirmative action is an unjust, racist and sexist practice and I would like to thank...