Back in 1962, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported that "that dread word, 'Splittism,' which has never before darkened a page of the Sino-Soviet polemic, broke through to the surface of the Peking 'People's Daily' in the first open discussion of a possibility of a split".
The truth is, I have no idea if Diego and Sara had adopted the theories in Kipnis's polemic and begun breaking the bonds of monogamy, or if his inquiry were strictly an intellectual exercise.
After the polemics over toilet breaks and the public slanging matches about professional ethics, and with a week of struggling to stay within contact of the climbing specialists behind him, Tom Dumoulin finally became the first Dutchman to win the Giro d'Italia, but the doubt in his mind lasted until the final rider in the field reached the last of the 3,612 kilometres.
Even though the deck is stacked, and the message polemic, the play was still ground breaking, one of the true classics of progressive theater.
Ubu And The Truth Commission is a complete break with the tradition of straightforward, populist, polemic that drove South African theatre during the years of struggle against apartheid.
Ms. Gutmann has written a highly charged polemic that rips through public relations cant like a tank breaking telephone poles.
As the anniversary nears, Germany's restored capital is meditating on its pivotal role in the making and the breaking of the Cold War world with plenty of polemic, a degree of introspection, but precious little self-congratulation.
I am not taking Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century with me, because it has been spoiled by all the blooming polemics I've read about it, and it's so enormous it will break the luggage allowance on the flight.
Five years and five broken cameras later, I watched this beautifully told tale of resistance (no vitriol, no polemic) and wondered how ordinary people ever change anything.
He answered with a trenchant polemic: **{:.break one} ** There is no question that Jews tried to enter into a dialogue with Germans, and from all possible perspectives and standpoints: now demanding, now pleading and imploring; now crawling on their hands and knees, now defiant; now with all possible compelling tones of dignity, now with a godforsaken lack of self-respect...
