Word: confess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance a gasman dresses up like an archbishop and makes one of the girls confess to him. Genet's idea is that the real archbishop, and other powerful men, are powerful only because other men imitate them in their fantasy lives. As the play continues, the masquerade gets more complicated. The pretenders become the men they have imitated, and their new power, in turn, depends on others who will imitate them. Mirror imagery and masquerade pervade every scene. There are no highpoints and no development; and the play never really ends, because the mirrors go on reflecting the same pattern...
...demanded an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, charged Bobby Kennedy and the Administration with attempts at "the rewriting of history." Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, retorted that he saw no useful purpose in "relaundering this linen-though I'll confess it has never seemed very clean...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted on Monday; I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any great interest in the Church before. But now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...
...women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers to be damned, the rich woman wants to be distracted. Each involves the others in a vicious circle of frustration that by its very nature never ends. That, according...