Assertion: bloom | /r/CapableOf | write vigorous polemic
Facets:
value: at a time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Bloom was writing vigorous polemic at a time when America sought to ensure that the intellect could not (and would not be allowed to) rise above gender and race; the mind was to be defined by its melanin and genetic content, and by what lay between our legs; or, in the academe, the canon was to be re-read and re-defined so that it fitted the latest theorem of gender or race.