Word: apologia
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...Apologia for the New Deal...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...
Togliatti's apologia for Stalin lacked the sweeping boldness of Khrushchev's attack, but then Togliatti lacked Khrushchev's claim to a previously terrorized silence. In free Italy, Togliatti had exhibited a slavish adulation for the dictator, had cried tearfully on news of Stalin's death, "He was a giant of thought and action." Last week his feeble effort to explain away this attitude, however unsatisfactory and irrational, accurately reflected the confusion of mind which had overtaken the Italian Communist Party...
...with the record of indecision, inertia and total surrender compiled by Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. On matters ranging from civil rights to the gas giveaway, Stevenson lowered his voice to the point of inaudibility; the effectiveness of his thrusts against the Administration has been dimmed by his tacit apologia for the Democratic record...
...feeling of guilt among students in the ten colleges because their preferred educational status kept them civilians. When asked whether they "found themselves apologizing to people for not being in uniform," those who didn't want to be in uniform say they didn't. Most of the apologia came from those who were "highly willing" to go into service...