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...Sinatra going to follow all that? His abdication announcement last week said he looked forward to contemplation, "writing a bit" and "perhaps even to teaching." The rest of the six-paragraph statement, released to Suzy, a syndicated gossip columnist and sometime Sinatra girl friend, was an apologia pro vita sua. After sermonizing on the brotherhood of man, he summed up his three-decade career: "Fruitful, busy, uptight, loose, sometimes boisterous, occasionally sad, but always exciting." Why did he want out? Because "there has been little room or opportunity for reflection, reading, self-examination and that need which every thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Chairman Emeritus | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Touched by Human Hands | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...first full-length novel since 1955, Budd Schulberg makes a bold attempt to invade the thoughts of an aging revolutionary. Justo Moreno Suaárez is the provisional President of a nation's revolutionary government. A former professor of political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Justo Fall? | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

CHAPPAQUA. Instead of writing his autobiography, Conrad Rooks has made an 82-minute apologia pro sua dolce vita on film, playing himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who spirals downward into the junkie's world of hallucination and finally emerges to self-realization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

CHAPPAQUA. Conrad Rooks gives his own 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 1, 1967 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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