Word: apologia
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...Awaken" is Ibsen's last play, but it is assuredly not his finest. Written at an advanced age, as was this drama of martial incompatibility and spiritual resurrection, the last dramatic moment of so great a man, was, obviously, not the best. The play, moreover, is a sort of apologia of an artist's life, the artist in question being, without doubt, Ibsen himself, and most apologias are over talkative. It is a notable tribute to the genius of a great writer that this loquacious effort, as presented last night by the Studio Players, should have aroused so enthusiastic...
...your acceptance of the value of the Classics you release me from the necessity of writing their apologia, although I cannot refrain from stating at this point that I believe their study has a universal value as a prerequisite to a full culture...
...with a certain, profound regret that the Vagabond begins today with an apologia. In his little treatise on Franklin yesterday an error here and there cropped out to relieve the dullness of the tale. Professor Matthiessen will speak at 10 o'clock in Harvard 6--not Harvard 26 as was previously given forth. Also it was pointed out, by one of those cavilling materialists who blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
...Foch's 530 pages an easy answer to their questions had a very imperfect knowledge of the character of the Allied Commander. Marshal Foch's book, which in the French edition bears the more precise title of Memoirs to Assist the History of the War, was to be his Apologia. And Marshal Foch, as a devout Catholic and a Latinist, knew that an apologia is not an apology but a defense. Therefore he penned a precise, colorless, painfully accurate account of what he had done from the outbreak of the War until the Allied armies of occupation seized the Rhine...