Word: polemicist
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...SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form in this tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: do not play fair. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity...
...SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist, not playing fair, in his tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity...
Named with the baby doctor for "conspiring to counsel, aid and abet" young men to evade service in the armed forces were four other antiwarriors: Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 43, long an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes; Brooklyn-born Novelist-Polemicist Mitchell Goodman, 44, who broke up last year's National Book Awards ceremony by shouting "We are burning children in Viet Nam"; former White House Disarmament Aide Marcus Raskin, 33, who now serves as co-director of a Washington research organization; and Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student and peace preacher...
Writing well below his form in Marat/ Sade, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...
More from More It would be an outrageous generality to say that the most money always wins. In 1966, Georgia's Segregationist Lester Maddox proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign buttons: he sold them. In 1964, Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency cost the most ever ($19.3 million) and lost by the biggest margin ever. What Goldwater also did was to bring the Republican Party 72% of its gifts in amounts of less than $500, making the G.O.P...