Word: confess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competitive field of. journalism (newspapers, radio, TV, magazines) this creates an impulse to be different. Some concentrate on the sideline trivia. Others try to be first with news of a great concert by talking about it before it happens, which is easy but not apt to be informative. We confess to a general prejudice in favor of talking about the event afterward-to review how well Artur Rubinstein actually played rather than to anticipate his reception from a desire to appear first...
...Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave his reluctant support to the crash program that developed the hydrogen bomb-a program that split the nation's scientific community. "Although I deplore the prospect of our country putting a tremendous effort into the H-bomb," he said, "I must confess that I have been unable to come to the conclusion that we should...
...architectural antiquarian modeled the glory of his ragbag wardrobe: a morning suit originally made for U.S. Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration. But I must confess that I feel a little unworthy." As if his radio transmitter were stuck in mid-orbit, Soviet Cosmonaut Sherman Titov last August repeatedly exulted, "I am eagle, I am eagle . . ." Last week a report newly published by two Russian scientists revealed that Titov had also been as seasick...
...Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends,'' wrote Francis Bacon to Lord William Cecil, "for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
...members of Gamblers Anonymous confess and reconfess their compulsion at each meeting, starting off each purgative session with the statement: "My name is- -; I am a compulsive gambler." Prayer plays a large part in the rehabilitation process. G.A.'s are guided by the society's Twelve Commandments ("We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." "We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all"). Some chapters place small newspaper ads on the day of a scheduled meeting, but G.A. does...