Word: screed
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...lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into a 10-hour television series on the same topic, to be released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind's quasi-religious relationship with the natural elements." Hubert de Montille...
...vituperative three-page screed interspersed with capital letters and an 85-word run-on sentence, Bennett called for immediate transparency at the HMC and a full accounting of fund managers’ salaries. The HMC said last month its six highest-paid managers received more than $100 million in salaries and bonuses last fiscal year...
Global transformers this spring include, according to Palmer’s description, “renowned historian Howard Zinn,” who is mostly renowned for his socialist screed A People’s History of the United States. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, euphemistically described by Palmer as a “social critic,” compared President Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts to Nazism. Among other idealist guests is “Alfie Kohn, the nation’s leading critic of ‘standardized testing as ethnic cleansing...
...perhaps the only college students in the country still in class the day before Thanksgiving. (Well, in theory, anyway. Most of us, of course, will be long gone before this article ever goes to press, let alone gets read.) However, as I began to type out that screed I mistyped “appalling” and my computer automatically corrected the word to “appealing.” It was, perhaps, a sign. And as a result, instead of moaning about yet another of Harvard’s shortcomings, I decided to write about what I liked...
Interspersed with his songs, Aesop made way for Lif to drop several of his own, including “Home of the Brave,” a political screed written long before Bush-bashing became a popular pastime...