Word: apologia
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Aaron Copland's book, "Our New Music," although contributing a few good insights, is on the whole no more valuable than a modern composer's apologia pro arte sua should be, and about as impartial as an epitaph. He brings up the old notion that Beethoven and the Romantics were too "subjective" and personal, while the new music has to "grapple" with the objective problem of the times. Of course, he hastens to add, the old devices of melody, rhythm and strong feeling are still used, only "extended and enriched" and made more "objective." All this is reassuring reading...
...there was any power in Vichy-General Weygand or anyone else-who was determined to oppose Germany's African ambitions, he had his apologia written for him last week by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "The Netherlands are also occupied territory and Dutch soldiers are also prisoners of war and the Dutch people on the Continent are also at the mercy of the German Army and of the Nazi Party. Nevertheless the Dutch Empire stands firm and nothing Hitler threatens to do to the Dutch in the occupied territory causes the Dutch in the free world to think...
...writing by one of those tactless remarks, to which people who have changed sides are vulnerable and rawly sensitive ("Your question is meant kindly. But may I reply that it has hurt me more than unjust and malevolent judgments from opponents. . . .")-And like Newman's, Rauschning's apologia is no apology at all, but a careful and courageous examination of his course, revealing great probity, political acumen, intellectual equilibrium...
...Conservative Revolution, ex-Nazi Rauschning this week told why. The book, his second in six months, was a Prussian Apologia Pro Vita Sua, describing in a series of autobiographical letters (to an anonymous British friend) why "even men of good will [were driven] into Naziism" - and why they later left it. Like Cardinal Newman, who was a leader in the religious revival ("Oxford Movement") in 19th-Century England and eventually changed from the Anglican to the Catholic faith, Rauschning could write his apologia only in terms of the great issues of which he has become a spokesman. His book...
Originally the speeches given were Latin or Greek selections, but this year no contestant will deliver a classic oration. Last year's winner. Robert A. Brooks '41, gave the "Apologia" of Secrates in the original Greek...