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...Europe's bloodstream, and how and why it made the body grow. He has focused his studies on Europe's Middle Ages, a period that many European historians skip over lightly.* Although a Roman Catholic himself, Dawson does not take the tack of the conventional Catholic medieval apologist, who regards the period as a happy but vanished Golden Age when there were no Protestants around. For Historian Dawson, the Middle Ages can be studied only as a fusion of religion and culture, a "long 1,000-year process" that formed Western culture and continues to influence...
Author Prescott tells her story not as a Catholic apologist (she is an Anglican), but rather as a woman writing understandingly of the troubles of another. In her hands, Mary's story is both terrible and unforgettable...
...money with great reluctance, mostly because Truman's councilmen had made few friends on Capitol Hill. Under Truman, the three CEA members all had equal standing. Thus the council was often split and public squabbles were common. It became less of an advisory board and more of an apologist for the Administration's economic policies. There seems to be little chance of similar trouble under Burns. Said he: "My inclination would be to stay out of the limelight, make my recommendations to the President, indicate the basis for [them], and then, having done that, to remain eternally quiet...
...time it seemed that, as third partner (with Chesterton and Maurice Baring) in the century's greatest debating team (with Bernard Shaw as their greatest opponent), Belloc would settle down into the role of Britain's foremost Roman Catholic apologist. He did, but he went right on behaving as perversely as ever-regularly downing two bottles of French claret at a sitting, composing rowdy songs in praise of beer, vagabondage and Rabelais, and penning, in Cautionary Verses, those cynical little masterpieces of nursery rhyme in which the jollification of well-bred children was neatly intermixed with gibes...
Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas Lamont, has a long record as a Soviet apologist and a sponsor for Communist fronts, including a term as chairman of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship. In its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee has made great play with Lamont's name as an Institute member...