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TheSchlaflyERA Mrs. Schlafly [July 3] is labeled as a polemicist, as being responsible for ERA'S decline, of defeating ERA in the Illinois state legislature. Mercy, mercy me! One small lady did all that? Don't the legislators get any credit for arriving at their own conclusions...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his steamiest. Yet at times, Benjamin's insights cast prophetic shadows. On the effect of film and advertising, for example: "Before a child of our time finds his way clear to opening a book, his eyes have been exposed to such a blizzard of changing, colorful, conflicting letters that...
...Amendment, which was about to be voted on in the house, the women had brought loaves of home-baked bread-apricot, date nut, honey-bran and pumpkin. But as she climbed onto a kitchen stool to address the cheering crowd, Schlafly the demure housewife turned into Schlafly the aggressive polemicist. The passage of ERA, she declared, would mean Government-funded abortions, homosexual schoolteachers, women forced into military combat and men refusing to support their wives...
Later, as a novelist, he helped fuel the age of French romanticism; as a polemicist he daringly attacked Napoleon; as a politician he served as Louis XVIII's foreign minister. En route, he out-Byroned Byron; few of Europe's great beauties-or, possibly, his sister-could resist the arrogant, magnetic aristocrat...
Like his famous younger brother, polymath Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., Jim always stood far to the right politically. But he did not get into politics until the late '60s, when the New York Conservative Party-a predominantly Catholic faction that had sprouted from right-wing disgust with the liberal leanings of both major parties in the state-began to make waves. In 1968, without having given a formal public speech in 17 years, he took his castle-Irish dignity and shy grin into the Senate campaign. To everyone's surprise, he rolled up 17% of the vote...