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Beyond that, a proto-Nazi polemicist was a strange choice of subject for a man who claimed that his academic studies were a refuge from the army, where he supposedly sought out men who shared his anti-Nazi views.

The book delivers on its title, examining Ambrose's varied roles as a defender of orthodoxy in the Arian debate, a leader in the civic affairs of Milan, a polemicist against paganism, and a champion of the church against imperial encroachments.

His well-crafted study establishes Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) as a great theoretician and polemicist on behalf of capitalism, even as it lays bare the gaps in the Austrian economist's vision.

Hebrew poet, grammarian, and polemicist who was the first to use Arabic meters in his verse, thus inaugurating a new mode in Hebrew poetry.

When Tony JudtNYU eminence, mordant historian of 20th-century Europe, essayist, polemicist, and bete noire of Bibi-loversdied earlier this year, and died young at only 62, those readers anticipating the next installment of Judt's swan song in the New York Review of Books had a right to feel a correction was in order.

Hill (English, Bath Spa University College, UK) presents a thorough recounting of the many writings of this contemporary of Shakespeare, who began as an itinerant playwright and general polemicist, but became a pageant writer for the city of London.

This was a great journalist and a fine polemicist who loved words, believing they had the power to make the changes in society that he so desired.

(1) He was of course a young and rather wild polemicist when he made the remark in 1923, one that could dismiss a Gothic cathedral as 'not a plastic work; it is a drama; a fight against the force of gravity, which is a sensation of a sentimental nature', (2) --the time-honed argument of the neo-Classicist against the Gothic.

I've long been baffled to see so many conservatives defend Coulter as a fiery and witty, if over-the-top, polemicist. Reviewing her previous book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, in The Weekly Standard, Christopher Caldwell lauded the "Menckenesque invective" of such apercus as: "Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do.

In a fine introduction, Pages narrates Zola's role in the affair and tries to show both how his "activity as a polemicist was rooted in the reflections made possible by the intimacy of his private relationships" and how his journalist interventions became inscribed in his literary work (xiv).

The foremost literary polemicist of the 18th century in Spain.

Critic and polemicist Thomas McEvilley and playwright/poet/activist Baraka accept the challenge of Dial's complexity; gracing Image of the Tiger, their essays recognize the black nationality, real and fundamental, that generates and names his work.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to know how a literary scholar, trained in the analysis of verse, transforms herself into a noted anti-Zionist polemicist, The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke, February) walks you through the process.

Le Corbusier, as a fiery '20s polemicist, urged that 'Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Sproul Jr., son of a famous Calvinist polemicist, published a brief Internet commentary that considered the possibility of driving out the moneychangers, though he finally concluded that it is, after all, a trade show.