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...things American. Salinger has carved a new career as the American in Paris who provides Frenchmen with native insights into the inscrutable Yankee mind. As a grand reporter (roving editor) specializing in U.S. affairs for the French newsmagazine L 'Express, he has become the most prominent American apologist and explicator in Paris since CBS Commentator David Schoenbrun left in 1962. Salinger presides jovially over several music and film festivals in France. He is a regular commentator for Europe One's French radio station and frequently appears on French television. He has become a fast-selling author in France...
...prominent Columbia University economist this week resigned from that university's East Central Europe Institute to protest the research center's sponsorship of a speech by a West German professor he believes was an apologist for the Nazi regime during World...
...success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time to a revolutionary group something like the Symbionese Liberation Army so they can stage their heists before a slack-jawed mass audience; that meantime the Mad Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings crisis and that his network employers, unable to fire him because they too are owned by the conglomerate biggy, would arrange for their revolutionaries to rub the Prophet out in mid-diatribe, thus mercifully bringing him and the film...
Will some apologist for the new Mass explain why it was necessary to ban the Tridentine Mass? For four centuries following the Council of Trent the use of several rites was permitted. What once was unity in diversity has become disunity in perversity...
Betty Ford's crude, unwarranted remarks about Nancy Reagan typify the mindless, permissive drivel we have come to expect from that dancer turned counterculture apologist and defender of public immorality...