Word: polemicist
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Satanic Illusion. Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily. The militant gospel of class warfare that Laski preached during the 1945 campaign had put the fear of revolution in many a Briton's heart. The Nottinghamshire Newark Advertiser accused him of having advocated violence to impose Socialism on Britain. Laski sued the paper for libel, but the court was not convinced. Laski had to pay all the court costs of $52,000, including a thumping fee to the paper's lawyer, wealthy Sir Patrick Hastings...
Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
General Stilwell, as his memoirs manifest, was neither polemicist nor stylist, but in his own unembellished manner he has expressed the very acute problem which remains to plague us even at the present. How may we, in our anxiety to triumph over an enemy, insure that we do not become identified with an equally reprehensible and unregenerate ally ? The current issue over Communism has come down to us from the wartime practices in which we sought to strengthen an ally now become an enemy...
...Trotsky never finished explaining what "the idea had." For at that point in history, ideas, to which Trotsky was dedicated, were shattered forever by the force which Stalin epitomized. Before Trotsky could complete his sentence, Jackson's pickax had written finis to "the grand polemic" and the grander polemicist...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...