Word: polemicist
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...Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island which not even the southern savages have dignified with habitation." It was a place fit only for smugglers and buccaneers, he wrote, and any British garrison sent there would "contemplate with envy the exiles of Siberia...
...part of a group of hard-line defense and foreign policy intellectuals associated with the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University, where she teaches political science. A gifted lecturer with a schoolmarm's no-nonsense forthrightness, Kirkpatrick is admired and sometimes feared by colleagues as a scorching polemicist-an attribute that may win her some points but may also make some difficulties for her, as it did for one other outspoken U.N. Ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
Novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, historian of the Gulag and indefatigable polemicist-these are the various vocations that Alexander Solzhenitsyn has long pursued. Now, with the publication of The Oak and the Calf, yet another Solzhenitsyn has emerged: military strategist. This memoir reveals the embattled Russian writer as the master planner of his own personal twelve-year war with the Soviet regime. Few readers of his chronicle of combat will fail to be impressed by the bold forays and feints, the diversionary actions and tactical retreats that ultimately won Solzhenitsyn an unconditional victory, albeit only a moral...
DIED. Paul Blanshard, 87, anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement...
Like Badlands, Director Terrence Malick's remarkable first film, his new work is a bleak and unstinting attack on America's materialistic culture. But Malick is an artist, not a polemicist; his scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer...