Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist. Not Conrad Rooks. He decided to make a movie about himself. The result is Chappaqua, named after the Westchester County commuters' village where Rooks spent what he considers the only happy years of his youth (from 8 to 13). The film is an 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...
...contemporary doctrine the ancient tension between what the world is and what it might become has all but vanished. The current perspective is an apologia, a celebration, an ideological consecration of this most lovely of all possible worlds, in short, a consenting academy...
...whitewash in TIME's apologia, nor all the paint on the cover will make me believe Franco is not a despot...
...November Advocate closes with an aimless apologia which shrilly proclaims that young writers exist in the world, admits they don't go to Harvard, and wishes they would get in touch with the Advocate. The editors complain that: (1) potential contributors would rather shoot for big money from national magazines than write for local audiences, and (2) talent, like nature, can't be forced -- no one can squeeze pieces out of writers when they're doing things like picketing the White House...
...reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass on his earlier writings; one of his new judgments comes perilously close to being an apologia for slavery when he points out that the slaves in America were really better off than they had been in Africa...