Word: polemicists
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...make sense. After all, the world, bloodied by the first modern war, hardly seemed a rational place. The Dada movement rejected history, literature, bourgeois values and, of course, artistic conventions. "I don't even want to know if there were men before me," wrote Tzara, the movement's polemicist in chief, in 1918. Dada spread around the world, to Barcelona, Tokyo, New York City (where Duchamp and Picabia found refuge during the war), Berlin, Cologne, Hanover and ultimately Paris. The first International Dada Fair took place in 1920 in Berlin, at an art gallery evoked here in a room similarly...
...chairman Paul Komesaroff rejects the notion of drug companies as out-and-out bad guys. Where Angell decries a grubby alliance between industry and many doctors, Komesaroff sees a complex relationship that needs to be untangled only partially, and with the greatest care. Angell, he says, is an "effective polemicist who's made an important contribution to raising these issues ... but there has to be an effective dialogue between industry and the profession because each depends on the other" to help patients...
...withdraw his name in 2003 after a Democratic filibuster targeted Estrada's conservatism), he said Coulter's appeal 15 years ago, when they met, was "the same as it is today. She was lively and funny and engaging and boisterous and outrageous and a little bit of a polemicist ... Most of the time, people miss her humor and satire and take her way too literally...
Four different kinds of writers were chosen for the panel, to reflect the fact that a variety of styles can lead to cultural change. Morrison was the novelist, Franken the polemicist, Blumenthal the journalist and Kennedy the advocate...
...that the Democrats are careful to keep their distance. Kerry hasn't seen and won't comment on the movie, and, as Moore told TIME, "if Kerry's President, on Day Two, I'll be on him [too]." Kerry and Edwards and Moore - two smooth polls and a rumpled polemicist - are unlikely bedfellows anyway. But politics has always created alliances of convenience; for now the three share a goal. And they have more in common than is evident at first glance; Moore plays the outsider, unkempt and loud, but he does share two things with Edwards: blue-collar roots...