Word: polemicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The film has its faults. Since it started out as a documentary about the Miners for Democracy, there is too much footage on the rather tortured recent history of the UNWA--it doesn't seem to fit. The scenes of the miners voting for the 1975 contract that took away...
Such passages confidently approach a Sapphic sensuality. Broumas is less successful in translating polemic into poetry. "I am," she writes,
The public's anxiety, anger and skepticism have been reinforced by the exposure of many remarkably human frailties within the halls of science. Biologist Barry Commoner's Science and Survival, documenting an erosion of scientific integrity and denouncing official secrecy and lying about nuclear fallout, came in 1966...
Outrage rises from the men - and from the prose - and it continually buoys Voyage. Hayden is offended that things as splendid as ships, and the sea they sail on, are polluted by avarice. Yet for a moralist with a case to make, he stays commendably free of melodrama and polemic...
Although a discussion of ethics is only one part of the book, it is key to understanding Schumacher's purpose. He seeks to prove that only a discussion of values and value judgments, a task of metaphysical reconstruction if you will, can provide solutions in the broad problem areas he...