Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from so shrewd a cookie is hard to buy. Mo's defense of her husband as the contrite hero who saved the Republic singlehanded is no easier to purchase. Yet with the help of TIME Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, Mo has fashioned something more than a palpitating apologia. She was, after all, an accidental witness to some high crimes and misdemeanors, and her views of the pressure-cooked conformity of the Nixon White House are mordant and telling. After a circumspect New Year's Eve party with two other uptight Administration couples, Mo notes...
Virtually all Harvard economics professors fall within this school. In fact, Harvard has a nationwide reputation for being the leading university in the school of thought advocating this position. Decades of endless apologia for ever increasing state intervention and control of the economy has earned the department this well-deserved reputation. This entire position can be referred to as the Harvard welfare state liberal school...
...says, "I am not an innovator but a rediscoverer of forgotten goods and I hope a remover of obtrusive bric-a-brac." In Elizabethan times, after all, Shakespeare's plays were performed with few trappings. One need only read the Prologue to Henry V. which is an eloquent apologia for this manner of staging...
...Richard Nixon's. Last week, a month after the documents' release, Graham produced a statement: "I must confess this has been a profoundly disturbing and disappointing experience. One cannot but deplore the moral tone implied in these papers." Then Graham went on to offer a curious apologia for the President. He refused to judge Nixon's conduct as reflected in the transcripts and wondered aloud at the capacity of others to do so: "A nation confused for years by the teaching of situational ethics now finds itself dismayed by those in Government who apparently practiced...
Despite their crude attempts to throw potential detractors off-guard, Magnum Force's Ted Post and The Seven-Ups' Phil D'Antoni, as well as The Laughing Policeman's Stuart Rosenberg, are interested mainly in zapping their audiences. Force's liberal apologia count for naught when the director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used...