Word: polemicist
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...Revel France's answer to Charles Reich-a 1971 champion of the sweeping statement? Not quite. Beneath the extravagances he is a shrewd polemicist out to score a fair rebuttal point: that America is not as bad as most Europeans-and many Americans-think it is. In other words, the New World is still a source of revolutionary hope. But the modern sin of overstatement runs away with Revel. Before he can stop, he is dreaming of a revolution that will spread from the U.S. by "a sort of political osmosis" until it arrives at its logical conclusion: "world...
...father of "momism" in Generation of Vipers, Polemicist-Novelist Philip Wylie has a certain reputation to live up to. In his own way, he turned the crank letter into a literary form. In that eruption 29 years ago, he added to the sum of human choler by announcing, among other things: "Gentlemen, mom is a jerk...
However many names are finally thrown into the Government's case, the two Berrigan names will almost surely remain the focus of disturbed attention. Philip is an able political polemicist, a voracious gatherer of facts, who has written well-argued books on racism and war. Daniel is a prizewinning poet, a charismatic provocateur, who became lionized as a modern Pimpernel while the FBI chased him last summer. He eluded authorities for four months, taking shelter with 37 families in twelve cities...
...their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing office work. Together they lead a great books seminar for their fellow inmates. But the imprisoned priests' main interest is prison reform. As self-assigned advocates for the nation's 20,000 federal prisoners, the Berrigans have already filed a class...
Determined to perform as a lawyer, not a polemicist, Tigar calmly points out that nearly all the "overt acts" cited by the Government against the defendants consist of meetings and speeches. Dressed in a sober suit, white shirt and tie, Tigar began his opening statement to the jury by promising to be "mercifully brief." He was. "Conspiracy deals in essence with the contents of men's minds," he said in part. "That is the simple heart of this case...