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...shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy of truth-and-consequences that lasts until dawn. They slosh down a superhuman amount of booze, blurt family secrets, swap partners, claw the flesh away from old, still-festering wounds...
Highest Evidence. The hope is that such questions will lead to voluntary confessions, which have always been highly valued in U.S. courts. Whether it is the spontaneous blurt, the "threshold" confession immediately after the crime or the arrest ("Officer, I just killed my wife"), or the eventual uncoerced admission made by a suspect, the voluntary confession usually needs no corroboration for conviction. It is "the highest form of evidence," the legal analogue of the religious confession, although it may lead to execution rather than absolution...
...their capsule, the Wasp put in at Mayport, Fla. McDivitt and White were flown to Houston's Ellington Air Force Base, where their wives-both named Pat-their children and 1,500 well-wishers waited in 92° heat. Four-year-old Patrick McDivitt could hardly wait to blurt out some news. "Daddy! Daddy!" he cried. "I jumped off the high board!" McDivitt grinned, patted his son's head...
...Goldwater forces realize "that Barry could still blurt out some remark that would hurt his cause" in securing the Republican presidential nomination, how could he be trusted as President of the U.S. not to blurt out remarks that would hurt the cause of his country...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...