Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muhammad Kenyatta, of the Black Economic Development Conference, was one of those pushing hardest for a strong re-ordering of priorities. Addressing the assembly Wednesday night, he lambasted the liberal establishment in a heated, rambling polemic, scorning targets from the late Robert Kennedy ("slick-ass") to the conference itself ($55...
To fix guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and...
Stick to Necking. Controversy has been a prime objective of Op-Ed since its inception, and the page now draws nearly as many letters to the Times as the paper's editorials. Although some of the political contributions have been a bit pedantic, other offerings have produced delight, drama...
Basically Herndon is in desperate agreement with John Holt, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenburg, Charles Silberman & Co. that U.S. schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic...
But the program hurt its message by overstating its case. Shots of the VIPs seemed to be selected to make them look foolish. The script, though generally well-done, was sometimes flawed by heavily underlining its points, trying too hard for irony or poignancy (after a firepower demonstration: "War is...