Word: apologia
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...downright embarrassing." With that essentially negative prelude out of the way, the West German journalist launches into a wry and gritty explanation of what it is like to be a German today. Leonhardt feels that the Germans are among the world's most unliked peoples, but his apologia gives a tough, fascinatingly qualified answer of yes to the question: "Do you like being a German...
...yourself guide to economic development that is gospel for many leaders of underdeveloped lands. These newly arrived politicians are also avid readers of Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, whose criticism of high consumer spending and low public spending in The Affluent Society provided many of them with an apologia for their planning programs...
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This is neither a young man's manifesto nor an old man's apologia pro vita sua, but an interim report on himself by a clever, likable man of 35. British Novelist-Critic John Wain was 20 when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there...
...their mid-twenties and went on to man's literary estate, while Vidal, at the moment of his elevation, is 36. The new boy earned his rank by writing, before he was 30, eight throbbing novels (the most notable, The City and the Pillar, was the warmly sympathetic apologia of a tennis player who liked tennis players much better than he liked playing tennis), and then chucked it all to write for television. This dramatic renunciation-Rimbaud would never have gone into gunrunning if there had been television to write for-had its purgative effect, and Vidal soon became...