Word: apologias
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...offers a fascinating chronicle of literary figures who espoused, contemplated or tried suicide-Montaigne, John Donne, Cowper, Thomas Chatterton, Dostoevsky, and so on up to Hart Crane and Ernest Hemingway. It is only toward the end that one realizes Alvarez is thesis pushing, that the book is as much apologia as inquiry. His questionable message: the 20th century is the age of death. But, Alvarez argues, because mankind is only numbly aware of this, the risky purpose of the creative writer must now be to force his audience "to recognize and accept imaginatively . . . not the facts of life...
...doesn't first get them drunk or shoot them up with horse. Kubrick makes his representatives of the state not only bland, but sexually randy. Most important for audience emotion-letting: out of all the victims seen, only Alex suffers. Kubrick has, in general, turned Burgess around to make apologia for a teen-age hero pitted against decadent oldsters...
...Sheed is, finally, despite all the Catholic apologia, an original--not a leader or philosopher of any school. He is both tough-minded and entertaining. Read The Morning After, and "The Good Word" in the Sunday Times. Pray that he tackles films once more. And forgive him his forfeits and trespasses...
...interesting to read the apologia for "he" as the generic pronoun which some linguists sent to the Crimson. Without arguing about the supposed facts involved, we present the following hypothetical: in culture R the language is such that pronouns are different according to the color of the people involved, rather than their sex. In R there are separate pronouns for brown people, black people, red people, yellow people and white people: the unmarked pronoun just happens to be the one used for white people. In addition, the colored peoples just happen to constitute an oppressed group. Now imagine that this...
Trivia Games. Basically a twelve-projector magic-lantern show, Television Environment flashes freeze frames of evocative TV vignettes round the walls of the gallery: Arlene Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously...