Word: apologia
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...dazzling ode to the birds, Warren manages to compress a poetic epitaph for Audubon as well as a capsule apologia for the endlessly seeking, destroying and atoning destiny of all artists, of man himself...
...Such an apologia may be offered by the confused and untalented artist as well as by the gifted one. The Milky Way, in fact, seems made of both varieties. Its shards and fragments remain in the retina long after the film has flashed by. Yet the angry whole is never equal to some of its parts-as if, like a doctor attending a plagued patient, Buñuel had been infected by what he was treating. "We have just enough religion to make us hate," said Swift, "but not enough to make us love one another." It is impossible...
...standing among scholars of the presidency is no higher now than it was among the people then. Last week Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., took his own leave of a nation disenchanted with a far-off war and deeply perturbed by its myriad problems at home. His apologia was not abject like Grant's, but his peroration contained a latter-day echo of it. "I hope it may be said a hundred years from now," Johnson told the Congress, "that by working together we helped to make our country more just. That's what I hope...
...mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco's armies in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself in his current incarnation as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture: the man who gave Paris a long-needed face washing, planted a copy of the Venus de Milo in the Paris Métro and, lately, helped the General resolve last...
Unwitting Ally. After Daley's television apologia, Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III came forth with one of the most balanced and accurate assessments of the confrontation. He did so at some risk to his political career, since any Democratic politician in the state defies Daley at his own peril. Said Stevenson: "In the Democratic convention, there was dissent and in it new hope for real change. But in Chicago, and in the Democratic party of Illinois that week, there was little room for dissent. Some 'revolutionaries' appeared on the scene, bent on provoking disorder, unwashed...