Word: apologia
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...people of "the book." Just as the history of Christianity has not always been a testament to the lessons of the God of love, so is Islam's past--and present--speckled with intolerance and bloodshed. What the world needs is not a hagiography of the Prophet or an apologia for Islam but a clear sense that modern Muslims are prepared to engage in an honest debate on the way in which their faith has been perverted by those who kill thousands of innocents. --By Michael Elliott
...must take issue with James Poniewozik's apologia for reality-TV programs and his view that they teach morality lessons [TELEVISION, April 23]. Programs like Big Brother and Survivor are not group therapy. Nor do they transmit any morals. They are an exhibition of what happens when contestants allow themselves to be showcased in an artificial environment in which they are likely to form emotional attachments while being required to inflict hurt and humiliation on one another. Rather than ask what message these shows send to their viewers, one should consider what irreparable damage they will, over time, cause...
...haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist Martin Amis writes in his own new memoir Experience, "We live in the age of mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed." Thus the modern appeal of the real: journalists pepper their reports with the pronoun I; historians focus on the lives of ordinary people rather than those of their...
...Opening Day of the 1998 season, I asked how he could replace the team's two graduates--cleanup-hitting Pete Albers and Ivy Pitcher of the Year Frank Hogan. Walsh interrupted to correct me, told me there had been three seniors on the 1997 team, and made his apologia for Brush: "He might have looked like who-knows-what, but he came to play every...
What Wirzbicki shows, and what the apologia for conservatism in Harvard Magazine reveals, is that when it comes to hypocrisy, American conservatives have no peers...