Word: confess
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...concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least one of the poems has an announced Jewish theme (though, I confess, I think that without its title its professed Jewishness would undoubtedly have escaped me). But the play and book review--of E. H. Carr's What Is History?--are not Jewish and the second poem, "Eve's Nightmare," is Jewish only to the extent that its subject was inspired...
Beauty in Slop Jars. Such is his rare candor to his elder confidant that he is able to confess the first signs in himself of a troubled spirit, "feeling inexplicably like crying or biting into something or beating it with my fists." Also, while still a schoolboy, he salutes the first intimations of his special vision of life, "feeling the beauty of everything, not excluding slop jars and foetuses-and a feeling of love for everything-and now I've run into Walt Whitman-and it seems as if I've dived into a sort of infinitudeof beautiful...
...confess I am unprosodical...
...Citizens Council. Although hundreds of Roman Catholics are technically excommunicated each year for such sins as marrying before a non-Catholic minister or joining the Masons, the penalty is seldom imposed these days upon specific, publicly named individuals unless the offense is of the stature of heresy. Until they confess their error, the three may not participate in the sacraments or in public worship, although they may enter churches and share in private prayers...
...fulfilling his obligation, the President is free to pick his confessor (most Catholics confess to whatever priest happens to be avail able) and to switch to another if he does not find him satisfactory. The Pope usually announces the identity of his own confessor, who is currently an old friend of his from Venice, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna. But this procedure would obviously be impractical for the President, since it would focus embarrassing publicity on his confessor, attract undue attention to the President's private religious life...