Word: polemicizing
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One point Shahak insists on making almost as often as he speaks or writes is the distinction between "principle" and "slogan." The former he describes as a belief under which an individual orders his life and a nation orders its social system. The latter is merely polemic.
The group's most publicized-and most pessimistic-member is Bernard-Henri Lévy, 28, a long-tressed editor at the Paris publishing house of Grasset who coined the term New Philosophers. In his hot-selling polemic, Barbarism with a Human Face, Lévy attacks the promises...
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...