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Having chosen the role of soother and persuader, he is puzzled nonetheless when people do not identify him with the creative, combative politician of yesteryear. After four years as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, his public persona is that of a subordinate and apologist. It has become increasingly difficult to think of him in such terms as leader, fighter, innovator?which are precisely the terms in which he thinks of himself. He argues these days, urgently and almost desperately, that he is too his own man; that he can too be a strong, forward-looking President. Perhaps. But in order...
...promises to "fight hard" for the nomination. Until recently, it seemed that no Humphrey fight would be hard enough. His early reputation as a sectional, dogmatic, abrasively self-righteous radical evaporated some time ago, to be replaced by an equally detrimental image as the uncritical apologist for an unpopular Administration. Many have denounced him for out-Lyndoning Johnson on the war. Others think that he is really too nice a guy to run a successful national campaign, too soft to fire anyone who needs firing. Even his power base in Minnesota seemed to dissolve. To some it appears that political...
Then there is the artifice of diffusion, that lively apologist for lives as well as works. Peggy Rizzo, who is quite talented, still managers to leave her "Three Studies from the Bridge" in a confusion, fine passages ("rain loosening from the leaves," "thoughts neved and birthed in the flesh of words") tumble together with passages buoyed by neither wisdom nor sound (I moved to dreams unpeopled, but birded"). There exists then no poem but only favored portions; there is no totality to like or dislike, certainly none to analyze. Something is perversely appealing about this nonchalance, for too often here...
Until recently, Dozier was an apologist for TV's lowest common denominator and highest profit philosophy. "We don't need to be ashamed," he once wrote. "Were F. W. Woolworth and J. C. Penney ashamed because they weren't Tiffany and Cartier?" But in the wake of "the past four seasons, which he calls "the worst in television history," Dozier has turned reformer...
...Jones as Serjeant Musgrave holds back, refuses to show the fury in the words he speaks. Musgrave is no apologist, he is as cheerless and pinched a revolutionary as ever you will find at a Progressive Labor meeting. When Jones rages about the stage in the third act, rifle butt and bayonet swinging in murderous passion, the play suddenly has a purpose and a center...