Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apologia and Manifesto...
...Thinking was first written in English, though Ernest Dimnet is a Frenchman and also writes facilely in Latin. He is 62, an abbe and a canon, and lives in the shadow of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Cardinal Newman's Apologia, which he won as a prize for playing handball in his schooldays, has influenced him more than any other book. He lectured at Harvard several years ago. He likes Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and dislikes the Freudian case system. The Bronte Sisters is his best known earlier work...
...also, one especially able assistant: Walter Catlett speaks of a "sunken garden for fallen women," and when comparing a watch with a sun dial, he speaks of "old Sol and Ingersol" with fetching apologia...
Once in jail, Heinrich Langkopf made his great apologia on the basis of the following facts: 1) In 1914 he was established in German East Africa as a planter; 2) Immediately upon the declaration of War, he enlisted, fought, lived to see his whole property confiscated by the Allies; 3) For the past eight years he has been in Berlin with his wife and child, seeking the indemnity which is due him from the German War Indemnification Office, of which Privy Councilor Hugo Bach is chairman; 4) Due to bureaucratic delays, he has received only 9,000 marks, although promised...
...Osservatore Romano, official Vatican organ, described the encyclical as "a page of magnificant apologia for the sanctity of the Church of Rome...