Word: apologia
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...writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia for such books as Nausea as having been conditioned by a certain time and place...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the ill-famed foreign policy speech, which was an apologia for Russia and which precipitated his firing from the Cabinet, Henry Wallace stood up once more in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acclaimed by some 18,000 fans rounded up by the Progressive Citizens of America, he said...
...Face of Death. Henry Stimson did not see how any man could have done otherwise "and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face." Did his apologia have "a harsh and unfeeling sound?" He reflected: "As I look back over the five years of my service as Secretary of War I see too many stern and heart-rending decisions to be willing to pretend that war is anything else than what it is. The face of war is the face of death. . . . This deliberate premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice...
...lust for power. Critics of Warren have pointed out the close parallels between the careers of Willie Stark and Huey Long and have claimed that Warren has exalted Long by his treatment of Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...
...Apologia for the Left. For laying the specter of Socialism, Attlee shrewdly chose the one spectacular event of his visit: his speech to Congress. He seized the chance to give the U.S. a somewhat oversimple, understandable account of the Labor Party and its purposes...