Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fail Safe first appeared as the Domesday Book of 1962, a propagandistic piece of fantascience in which Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler warned the world that at any moment a SAC computer might go crazy and cause a nuclear holocaust. Sold to a Hollywood operator for $500,000, the novel...
But writing a polemic about the meaning of passion narrows the author's exploration of the subject. Once he sets up desire as a symbol of say, rejuvenation, he cannot examine aspects of desire inconsistent with that symbol. This problem naturally limits the autobiographer's reminiscences. Lawrence could not includes...
The Brig is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-Broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas (Hallelujah the Hills) with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shockwave sound and a nightmare air...
Sir: I read with bitter surprise your article devoted to defaming and offending in a cowardly way the memory of my deceased parents [July 10]. When I made the decision of declaring before the world the truth about Cuba, and of thus helping to unmask the existing regime in our...
One Potato, Two Potato arrives in the U.S. brandishing a batch of warmly enthusiastic European press notices. Deemed by Hollywood to be unworthy of this year's Cannes film festival (TIME, May 15), the movie about racial intermarriage was submitted by its makers as an unofficial American entry and...