Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally the speeches given were Latin or Greek selections, but this year no contestant will deliver a classic oration. Last year's winner. Robert A. Brooks '41, gave the "Apologia" of Secrates in the original Greek...
...pseudo-philosophical autobiography. Haw-Haw's dubious masterwork has had small sale in Germany, none in Great Britain and the U. S. Last week, borne to the U. S. by ace Radio Correspondent William L. Shirer, top-flight newshawk for CBS, a copy of Haw-Haw's apologia turned up in CBS' Manhattan offices...
Star Dust(20th Century-Fox) is a light-hearted apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy...
...rapidly develops from bystander to alarmed social critic; a welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than this apologia suggests, Citizens is an ambitious technical experiment in the "proletarian" novel...