Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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An overemphasis on phonics instruction, though, can make some children miss the meaning of the words they sound out. Recalling Rudolf Flesch's 1955 pro-phonics polemic, Why Johnny Can't Read, Harvard Education Professor Jeanne Chall, a phonics authority, quips that "soon I can expect to see...
Brustein is one of those respected old-line liberals who today occupy the right wing of the political spectrum in the American university. He is a man who was on the Left when it was hard to be on the Left, who put his career as a director on the...
Seaborg has used similar tactics to meet the emotional challenges of Gofman and Tamplin, who contend that the AEC's policies are nothing less than outright genocide. In response, Seaborg acknowledges the dangers of radiation, yet insists that the AEC's precautions have been more than adequate. Such...
ROCHA's dialectic ranges over all levels of film reality. In one sequence the old landowner's whore Laura stands in the center of a mid-shot, leaning on a balustrade with one plant in left frame balanced by one plant in right; close in back of her a flat...
This is definitely a cinema of ideas, the clearest such cinema there's ever been, greatly superior in comprehensibility to anything Godard's ever done; indeed, it solves all the problems Godard's been worrying about recently. It's self-critical cinema which assumes the reality of nothing except the...