Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about the sordid or tragic facts of life in staccato sociology...
...cathedral, private palaces and a university, while a handful of New England Puritans huddled in log cabins. Gage traveled through 3,000 miles of splendidly savage country, to fight its climate and its idols. All the rich detail of the great travel book is in Gage's apologia-Drake's marauding soldiers dying of chiggers; Indians blowing trumpets against a plague of locusts; earthquakes, crocodiles, the fabulous pineapple and the "dangerous fluxes," noted to this day from drinking the waters of Mexico...
Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...
...Apologia for the New Deal...
...whom have served as advisers to President Roosevelt and Truman) who appear to be unable or disinclined to detach themself as scholars from the controversial political and social issues which involved those two politicians. Consequently, most lectures and some sections in the course often degenerate into a simple apologia for the New Deal...