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https://bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-magazine/bc-magazine-fall-2020-issue/bob/what-i-ve-learned-seth-jacobs.htmlA chance purchase at a used bookstore in Chicago changed Seth Jacobs’s life. It was 1992 and the then-actor had $1.25 in his pocket, the exact price of the Documentary History of the United States. He read it on his commute to the famed Steppenwolf Theatre, where he was appearing in Twelfth Night. “I was 28 and I had never taken a college-level history class,” said Jacobs, a history professor at BC since 2001. “I started feeling a little guilty that I didn’t know anything about the history of my country. That struck me as fairly irresponsible on my part.” So he enrolled in classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the rest, as they say, is history. We spoke with the beloved teacher—known for his impressions of Henry Kissinger, Lyndon B. Johnson, and other 20th-century figures—about accepting fallibility and following his passion(s).
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The Non-Apology ‘Apology’It’s common to complain about non-apologies, but the original meaning of ‘apology’ wasn’t “I’m sorry” at allSome people may have noticed that in recent years there has appeared a new kind of apology. This apology, it must be said, seems to bear only a passing resemblance to the mea culpa sort of apologies we all grew up with; it often is offered in the passive (“mistakes were made”), or the conditional (“If I have offended anyone I am sorry”), and rarely entails an outright admission of wrongdoing on the part of the apologizer. When did the word apology stop meaning “I’m sorry”?Apology comes to English from the Greek roots of apo- (“away from, off”) and logia (from logos, meaning “speech”). The word’s earliest meaning in English was “something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others to be wrong or of what may be liable to disapprobation.” To anyone who has ever studied ancient Greek or read widely of certain philosophers, this will come as no surprise. Plato’s Apology of Socrates is an account of the self-defense presented at the trial of Socrates, not an explanation of how that philosopher admitted his transgressions.