Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Formed Taste. The Wall Street Journal receives far higher grades. "Of all the newspapers which I am discussing, the Journal is the only one which, with intelligence, polemic, candor and wit, questions the way in which the world is going. If others like to 'side with history,'...
Mother Night was first published as a 350 paperback in 1962. Its appearance now in hardcover, reversing the usual procedure, can be regarded as an amusement tax chargeable to the author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science...
The radicals see the big house and they react automatically, "Fat cat." But Carter is far from the easy-going Southern planter who chokes on his gin-and-tonic the minute you mention "Negro." He's one of the few people, north or south, black or white, who would rather...
But To Die in Madrid is no one-sided polemic; one of its most touching moments is a depiction of the last conversation between the proud Nationalist defender of Toledo's besieged Alcazar and his young son, who is about to be executed by the Republicans because his father...
Delighted at having drawn blood, Group 47's leader, Author and Film-Maker Hans Werner Richter, chortled that the "Chancellor's lack of self-control is shocking." "Embarrassing, embarrassing," clucked Writer Heinrich Boll. Der Dicke was unrepentant, but political aides with an eye out for his electoral image...