Word: apologia
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...this instance the compiler, Mr. Wolfe, has done more than merely gather the material for an anthology. He has given his apologia in a long preface and before each section, as for instance, the Sportsman's Winter, Countryman's Winter, Reveller's and Fireside Winter, he has contributed an introductory poem of his own. This thread of the poet and compiler's personality running through the book serves to unify the whole and give it a distinctive flavor, so often lacking in the usual run of anthologies...
...agile debater, he shuns the rough-and-tumble of senatorial controversy. Only two formal speeches has he made, a highly orthodox Republican defense of the Republican tariff, an apologia for his Parker vote. (His friends understood that he put aside his own convictions on this case to support his President for Party reasons.) His manner of address is direct, dignified, rather dull. No dramatic sense vitalizes his voice...
...Nightingale's lonely mansion by the sea. But he finds his enemy too late: Nightingale is a cripple, cramped in a wheelchair, dying fast of arthritis and locomotor ataxia. Instead of killing Nightingale Malory sits and talks to him, listens to him talk. The sick man makes an apologia, but no apology, for his life...
John Henry Cardinal Newman, onetime hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...
...Catholic university in Dublin, and was thwarted; was promised a bishopric, which never came; was asked to make a translation of the Bible, and the plans fell through. But when Charles Kingsley, famed author of Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer May: "It has been proclaimed a classic?which means that...