Word: polemicizing
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Solomon says he has no problem with the political balance in the department. "The very act of teaching Afro-American studies is political," he says. "The department is political but not polemic or dogmatic. One of the strengths of the department is its determination to stay away from racial ideologies...
Last summer a journalist named Bryan Appleyard rode this discontent to the top of England's best-seller lists with a neoconservative polemic called Understanding the Present, subtitled Science and the Soul of Modern Man. In Britain, the book inspired headlines such as FOR GOD'S SAKE FIRE THE BIG...
In the showiest role, Roscoe Lee Browne plays the neighborhood wise man. He - has reached age 65 by staying out of other people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded...
Mike Nichols' staging, alas, is too ornate and stately, its pace slowed by pregnant pauses and suspense-draining scene changes. Moreover, the actors seem weirdly naturalistic for so polemic a text. Close never gets crazy enough for the audience to doubt whether she is right, as must happen to sustain...
Anderson was ruthless in her analysis of American traits and flaws. Again and again, she cited examples of American ignorance, hatred, violence and selfishness. Her performance could have been an angry diatribe, or sour polemic, but it was not. Instead it became all the more effective for the endearing, rousing...