Word: apologist
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Dean Pike became something of an official gadfly and unofficial spokesman for the Episcopal Church. Theologically, even though he had read Tillich and Niebuhr, Pike then was what he calls "smoothly orthodox. I was still a lawyer. I had just changed clients. I was an apologist. My feeling was that you've got to make the church's institution look good." On nondoctrinal controversy, however, he was an unapologetic independent. From the pulpit or on his nationwide Dean Pike TV show, he tangled with Cardinal Spellman on movie
Earl J. McGrath, D. Let., chancellor of Eisenhower College and former U.S. Commissioner of Education. At a time when jeremiads prophesy the demise of the independent church-related college of liberal arts, Dr. McGrath has been a most eloquent apologist and effective proponent of this educational tradition...
...President," explains Schlesinger, "and another for a college professor, fresh to the Government, to interpose his unassisted judgment in open meeting against that of such august figures as the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff." At this point, the historian shades imperceptibly into the apologist, as Schlesinger writes: "The advocates of the adventure had a rhetorical ad vantage. They could strike virile poses and talk of tangible things-fire power, air strikes...
...closely guarded headquarters in Washington's Veterans of Foreign Wars Building, the Commission questioned witness after witness. The first was Marina Oswald; the last on the schedule was James Rowley, chief of the U.S. Secret Service. In between came Manhattan Lawyer Mark Lane, an Oswald apologist who contended that the assassination was a right-wing plot, and University of Illinois Classics Professor Revilo P. Oliver, a Bircher who charged that it was a Communist plot. From 552 witnesses in all, the Commission gathered millions of words of testimony. All of it will be published in 24 500-page volumes that...
What sets Levron's work apart is that he approaches Pompadour not merely as an apologist and admirer but as an archivist-he is curator of all the his toric papers at Versailles. Delving into little-known notebooks and letters, he supports his assessments of her character with elaborate documentation of her daily housekeeping and the worthy causes she supported...