Word: apologia
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...five-nights-a-week stands: "1 think all of us have a great obligation to him." Similar tributes came from such other previous $320-a-shot guests as Dick Nixon, Jack Benny and Billy Graham. But as ever, teary-eyed Tragicomedian Paar prevailed, reveling in his last self-apologia (about Castro. "I was wrong in many areas") and final vestigial vendetta (was Dorothy Kilgallen headed for India "to fight a mongoose...
...roused widespread ire with his jeremiads about the U.S. middle class (White Collar) and its upper class (The Power Elite), contended that "there are more men of knowledge in the service of men of power than men of power in the service of knowledge," recently wrote an emotional apologia for Castro titled Listen, Yankee; of a heart attack; in Nyack...
...gambling evil. We all have our faults. But why hang them, as it were, like dirty linen on a clothesline from one end of the country to the other? Someone betrayed us . . ." But, though it earned lusty cheers from the ballgoers at the Boston Garden, Cardinal Cushing's apologia won him no points with local Protestant clergymen, one of whom tartly noted that while bookmaking "may not be a sin, it happens to be a crime...
Believed to be privately unsympathetic toward her son Fidel's Cuban revolution, Lina Ruz de Castro stirred inevitable rumors of defection when she flew out of Havana bound for Mexico City. But upon landing at Central Airport, she loyally respun her long-playing public apologia for the new "socialism"-"Everything is fine; we are enchanted"-and explained the prosaic purpose of her trip: Daughter Emma, wife of Mexican Engineer Victor Lomeli Delgado, is expecting a first child...
...Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...