But then,General Robert E.Lee led his southern forces in a fierce attack.

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In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.

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The campaign has been fierce, with campaigners complaining of keyed cars, verbal harassment and a general lack of tolerance for differing opinions.

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