Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
In ending his exile, Dylan once more takes up his subtle revolution. His fans, nurtured on unstructured polemic and cinema verite, are being invited on a new journey, and if their expectant faces are to be believed, they are ready to follow. Each night on the tour, Dylan receives an...
"The armed forces increased their readiness and acted with composure, so that the handling of the situation would not become one more element of criticism and polemic for the so-called 'resistance' groups..."