Word: polemicizes
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Death Wish is ugly not only because of its contentions but because it has the utter gracelessness of a polemic. Director Michael Winner presents what one can only surmise is his neurotic view, and his facile efforts to render the film in an "artistic" way only make it uglier. Charles...
Tracts are important. But they aren't history, and if their obliviousness to cold fact becomes essential to them they may not be too convincing even as tracts. An indictment of capitalism or of slavery that depends on the inhumanity or partial inhumanity of their victims isn't likely to...
But Cottle did not use a tape recorder or take notes when he spoke with the children. So his professed awareness only reinforces one's doubts that much of his "verbatim" recollection of extended narratives accurately captures the children's voices. Much of the talk is just too smooth, subtle...
Because it doesn't treat the trials as historical accidents with purely personal causes, Salem Possessed makes them weighty and comprehensible in a way traditional accounts cannot. It's the difference between a polemic about the Watergate scandals and a carefully written history of the Indochina war. Or between an...
THE SUGAR-COATING for this polemic is some of the juiciest literary gossip to come out of the Bloomsbury boom, which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have...