Word: apologists
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...Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson has fared the worst at the hands of revisionists. If he has managed to keep his place on Mount Rushmore, he has been vilified almost everywhere else in recent years as a slave-owning hypocrite and racist; a political extremist; an apologist for the vicious, botched French Revolution; and in general, somewhat less the genius remembered in our folklore than a provincial intellectual and tinkerer...
...only gripe: a writer's first duty should be to his readers, not his subject. Sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist. Clark, we're told, is restlessly obsessed with finding the next new thing--which is, apparently, a good quality. But another interpretation might be that Clark is simply driven by the pursuit of filthy lucre. There has to be a higher purpose to life than making yourself rich. During the '80s, we knew that the people making their fortune on Wall Street were hardly role models; yuppie...
...gentle swipe at Hollywood. Up north they don't read the movie trades first thing in the morning; they don't gossip about A-list parties. There are no megadollar contracts--except for Lasseter's. Don't imagine for a minute, however, that Jobs is a Silicon Valley apologist. He sees the beauty--and the beast--in both places. "What Silicon Valley thinks is creative is a bunch of guys sitting around on a beat-up old couch thinking up jokes," he says. "It's also true that Hollywood thinks technology is something you buy. Pixar is the only place...
...have acknowledged this fact, but Up is sophisticated, mellow and incredibly cohesive. So this album was naturally given star billing on this tour, with 10 out of 14 tracks performed. Showcasing their maturity and deft ability to combine moods, the song performances ranged from uplifting ("Walk Unafraid"), menacing ("The Apologist"), rocking ("Lotus"), quietly beautiful ("Why Not Smile") and wistful (the rarely played "Sad Professor...
...again to fight Milosevic's "Nazi fascist combination," he was arrested, beaten and jailed for 50 days. Since then, Draskovic has played a different game, shifting in and out of opposition. Just before NATO bombs began falling, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and became a ubiquitous apologist for his country. But in April, after criticizing Milosevic's policies in Kosovo, he was fired...