screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Hmmm...I always thought screed referred specifically to a written work.
DanG


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not in OED.
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> 2010 Connie Schultz _Columbia Journalism Review_ [
> http://www.cjr.org/second_read/what_it_was_like.php?page=all ] John
> Wayne's
> _The Green Berets_, an anti-communist screed made in 1968.
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> The movie is not a "harangue" in any ordinary sense of the word.
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> JL
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