Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marihuana Reconsidered, however, is definitely not an apologia for general narcotic or hallucinogenic drug use. Grinspoon's careful exposition of cannabis chemistry and physiological action is much too specific to be applied to other drugs. In fact, one targer of Grinspoon's book is current legislation which groups marihuana with dangerous narcotics and hallucinogens, thereby creating the public impression that marihuana's physiological and social effects are the same as those of the more serious drugs...
...Sinatra going to follow all that? His abdication announcement last week said he looked forward to contemplation, "writing a bit" and "perhaps even to teaching." The rest of the six-paragraph statement, released to Suzy, a syndicated gossip columnist and sometime Sinatra girl friend, was an apologia pro vita sua. After sermonizing on the brotherhood of man, he summed up his three-decade career: "Fruitful, busy, uptight, loose, sometimes boisterous, occasionally sad, but always exciting." Why did he want out? Because "there has been little room or opportunity for reflection, reading, self-examination and that need which every thinking...
PROFESSOR KENNAN'S apologia is ultimately bewildering for one who has attentively followed his admirable views on the establishment of NATO as a military defense against an attack no one was planning. Kennan informs us that he was opposed to the formation of NATO because, in his own words: "It was perfectly clear to anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the Russia of that day, that the Soviet leaders had no intention of attempting to advance their cause by launching military attacks with their own armed forces across frontiers." Such a procedure, he argued, "fitted neither with the requirements...
...concentrate on the affairs of the College, however, he talks this year about Yale as a whole, and about America. Unfortunately, he tries to give the letter a universal appeal, and, in so doing, manages to alienate almost everyone who could conceivably read it. He begins by offering an apologia for the use of dirty words by undergraduates which will surely strike all but the most puritanical alumni as gratuitously vapid. He follows with an account of the Alex Rackley slaying which somehow manages to make everyone look guilty, and spends the rest of the book explaining the conduct...
From the somber afternoon of the nuclear age, two physicists, father and son, look back at its dawn. The elder had helped to build the Bomb. The younger has been blighted by it. The situation seems prefabricated for apologia or remorse from the father, denunciation or at least contempt from the son. One of the rewarding things about...