Word: polemicize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Twelfth Night The most imaginative response to the debate over the National Endowment for the Arts was this La Jolla (Calif.) Playhouse staging, which cunningly conceived the priggish functionary Malvolio as a precursor of Senator Jesse Helms. Far from merely polemic, the production was visually the most ravishing at any...
The debate was torrid, the issue momentous. But even in the midst of last week's parliamentary debate over the country's economic destiny, many Soviet lawmakers could not tear their eyes from the newspapers in their laps. Here was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the...
In her portrayal this ennobled idea of womanhood and woman-strength, Malpede is effective. But the script is not without its problems. As much as the text glorifies the feminine it is a polemic against the masculine. The male characters are an array of negative masculinity stereotypes.