Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco...
...have no farewell speech to make, no apologia to give," John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, told his last class yesterday as he concluded 20 years of teaching at Harvard...
Probably for many readers the most interesting item on this varied bill of fare will be the apologia for Japan offered by Mr. Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Mr. Suma presents a defense which is at once a cleverly wrought argument and an interesting indication of the official Japanese attitude...
...difficult to decide which is grossest: the vapidity of the introductory apologia; the cant of the individual critiques; or (he high-handed inanity of the whole approach...
...dance bands to make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year, which produced "Clair de Lune," probably among...