Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite Branion's apologia for Duke's fraternities, I cannot believe that allowing virtual residential segregation on campus helps broaden the intellectual horizons of the fraternity members. The diversity of the student body is wasted when the snooty whites can band into incestuous, insulated fraternities...
...which the previously reticent writer points out instances in which his life, after all, has been lugged directly into his fiction. No one who has carefully followed Roth's career could have expected this mid-life striptease, least of all, apparently, its author. His confession begins with an apologia of sorts, a letter to Zuckerman explaining how the book came to be written and wondering "Why should anybody other than me be reading it, especially as I acknowledge that they've gotten a good bit of it elsewhere, under other auspices...
...just as the audience and, seemingly, the playwright himself cannot decide whether the laughable-sounding book under consideration is insight or eyewash, so it is hard to say whether Speed-the-Plow is an outcry against Hollywood or a cynical apologia from a man who, in real life, is finishing one Hollywood film and about to start another. Mamet has said that by being oblique, even obscure, he forces spectators to think. At least some playgoers, however, yearn for a writer straightforward enough to have the courage of his own convictions...
...long-awaited first joint appearance with his Democratic rivals came last Friday night at a debate sponsored by the Des Moines Register. But instead of fireworks, there was only fizzle. Moderator James Gannon opened with the predictable adultery question, and Hart rattled off his polished yet somewhat jarring apologia: "We have never expected perfection from our leaders, and I don't think we should begin now." He added, "I'm a sinner, but my religion tells me that all of us are sinners." His rivals never mentioned Hart's character or morals. Two hours was all it took for Hart...
...account of the tribulations of the Department of History at Harvard University which appeared in The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe seems to involve an assumption which may be worth some re-thinking. Be assured that I write this apologia for the elders among the Americanists in the Department out of no abiding affection for Harvard. Five years there as a graduate student in history in the 1930s left me with a deep distaste for that university as an institution, a distaste not wholly inconvenient since it enables me without scruple to toss the meeching appeals for further funding...