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...WORLD OF JOSEPHUS, by G. A. Williamson. The enigmatic life and times of the renegade Pharisee who went over to the Romans while they were conquering the Jews, then spent the full measure of his years in comfort, writing his own apologia and the only substantive account of two momentous centuries of Jewish history...
...Cult of Audacity. The stumbling block in any apologia for the French-or Russian-Revolution is simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more...
...Puerto Vallarta to Big Sur to Paris, LIFE Magazine Reporter Richard Meryman Jr. traveled with Elizabeth Taylor, tape-recording her story in automobiles, hotels, restaurants. From nearly 40 hours of tape came a 6,000-word first-person article, published last week in LIFE. Some passages from her apologia...
...suffered greatly. But he was a man who took ideas seriously, and was willing to dare greatly for them. No one less daring can be wholly self-righteous about either his sins or his suffering. And sometimes there is a sense that he was resigned to both. In his apologia, he wrote: "There are no more solutions by argument. . . . There are only martyrdoms, which are never solutions but pyres, whose flicker is addressed, not primarily to the present, but to a posterity that has not yet cohered out of chaos and old night...
Those Cursed Tuscans is a white-hot, sometimes overwrought exposition of Malaparte's philosophy and an apologia, really, for his way of life. As far as he is concerned, it was a mistake to unite Italy, for unification brought spare, lean and hungry Tuscans into contact with a lot of softhearted, overemotional Italians. "The Tuscans aren't tenors. They speak: they don't sing. They don't wash out their throats with beautiful Italian phrases." The whole history of Tuscany, thinks Malaparte, can be expressed in a common Tuscan curse: "To hell with...