Word: apologist
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...well in this country when he cites Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow's suggestion that we are eschewing large, bureaucratic organizations for smaller, flexible ones that "fit our life-style." This sounds more like convenience-store values for those who can't be bothered with deep commitment. Stengel's apologist thinking is especially disturbing in the context of a society in which the middle and lower classes are rapidly losing ground while a small group of the economically elite amasses more and more of the nation's wealth with little sense of noblesse oblige. Boutique values and transient commitments are just...
...survivors. Since I was a child, I have read every book I could find on Nazi Germany. I have tried to understand why and how the Germans came to carry out their plan for exterminating the Jews. I have read all of Irving's excellent books. He is no "apologist for Adolf Hitler." His works record the extermination of the Jews and provide evidence of Hitler's direct involvement. Irving is not an anti-Semite, nor is he a supporter of Hitler or Nazi Germany. His books, more than any others I have read, help explain what happened in Germany...
...good, if belated, idea. But McCormack's claim that nobody at St. Martin's was aware of Irving's reputation prompted widespread incredulity. A prolific writer with a knack for gaining access to original source material, Irving has also been for some 20 years a notorious and very public apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He has said there is "not one shred of evidence" that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Germans during World War II. In Hitler's War (1977) he made the somewhat contradictory argument that if there was a Holocaust, Hitler knew nothing...
...statement is callous and reeks of an apologist approach to violence. To suggest that bombings are warranted against a people who have taken courageous steps towards peace, to the point of compromising their own security, is contemptible. No one is to blame for the evil of blowing children to pieces except those that perpetrate that evil...
...people had trouble with Liz because they felt that she was an apologist for the administration," Robert Wolinsky '98-'97 said. "I don't think that Marco is an apologist for anybody and I think he'll take our concerns to the administration and help us deal with them...