Word: apologist
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...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...llya Ehrenburq-Polyg/ot Library ($5.95). llya Ehrenburg has spent half a lifetime as court jester to a regime with no sense of humor. In the Communist world, few have rivaled Ehrenburg's talent as a journalist-propagandist, but before he donned the chameleon motley of Soviet apologist-in-chief, he had a better story to tell. That story, partly his own. is embedded in an almost unknown novel, unpublished in the Soviet Union, called The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, which Ehrenburg wrote in 1927 when he had taken a leave of absence from Communist Russia...
...Chinese Communists' favorite friends in the West is Old China Hand Edgar Parks Snow, 55, who made his first trek to northwest China to visit them in 1936, interviewed Mao Tse-tung, and has remained a faithful apologist ever since...
...Speaker of the Assembly. Defeated by John Chang in the 1956 vice-presidential race by 200,000 votes. Lee ran again at Rhee's orders this year and won with an incredible overall majority of 8,300,000 to Chang's 1,800,000. An unswerving apologist for Rhee's policies-he defended the election-day massacre in Masan with the cold comment: "The police were given guns to shoot with, not as toys"-Lee has willingly served as whipping boy for all Rhee's political excesses. In Rhee's eyes, this has more than...
...newspaperman of responsibility," said one Timesman, "you don't rush into print immediately; you weigh the consequences." A major weigher of Cuban consequences for the Times was Editorial Writer Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, July 27), a good friend of Castro and ranking U.S. newspaper apologist for the Castro regime. "Youth," explained Matthews, writing off the excesses of the Castro government, "must sow its wild oats...