Word: apologist
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...arrival of a popular soldier on campus would probably provoke a hue and cry from Harvard's professional protesters. But Powell is not necessarily a military apologist; remember that Eisenhower was a major critic of the military-industrial complex. Also, campus protests would at least be interesting, something that another speech by Bok would...
...arrayed around a platter filled with white asparagus and ham, a seasonal delicacy. But the seven men, immersed in conversation, pay scant attention to either setting or food. The discussion, about something that happened four decades ago, still rivets their attention: Was one of their teachers then an apologist for Nazism or merely an outspoken nationalist...
...Israel lobby in Washington howled in protest, and First Friend James Baker, though hardly an apologist for Shamir, privately told his boss in the bluntest terms that he had better learn to choose his words more carefully...
...substantial battalion of devotees, Clive Staples Lewis -- the Christian apologist, children's fabulist and Oxbridge don who died in 1963 -- was a contemporary saint. His latest biographer notes with some bemusement that there is a kind of shrine to his memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric...
...Freedom's a big thing for me." The tribal bonds between Safire and the Times are intense. It is odd to recall the epithets that greeted his ill-timed arrival in the midst of Watergate; Safire's critics could not decide what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist, a right-winger or a non-journalist. "What impressed me was how quickly he became a Times person," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's former executive editor. In fact, when Rosenthal began writing his own pugnacious Times column, Safire cracked, "Overnight, you've made me a centrist...