Word: confess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confess I am worried, but I am not afraid." Thus Prime Minister Harold Macmillan last week confided to a Tory caucus his feelings about Britain's deepening economic crisis. To the average Briton in pub and park, basking in the summer sun, there were few signs of anything even to worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety...
...Benjamin Britten was over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
...occasion demands, Barry Goldwater can and does quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment to groups who come expecting to hear a conservative egghead. Goldwater himself is the first to confess that he is not a profound political thinker. "I'm not a philosopher," he says. "I'm a salesman trying to sell the conservative view of government...
...Church shall provide at its inception for the consecration of all its bishops by bishops and presbyters both in the apostolic succession and out of it from all over the world, from all Christian churches which would authorize or permit them to take part." ¶ The new church must confess belief in the Trinity and must administer the "two sacraments instituted by Christ"-the Eucharist and baptism. "It will not be necessary, I trust, for a precise doctrinal agreement to be reached about the mode of operation of the sacraments...
...close reader of the History, such a major shift is the equivalent of saying that the whole Study needs revision. Toynbee even finds it now necessary to revise his table of civilizations, one of the key points of his huge labor, and at one point he blandly confesses that "I now have to abandon my previous construction of three distinct civilizations." In the same way he acknowledges that his list of "arrested civilizations" is "capricious." Moreover, he tacitly agrees that he forced facts into theories when he writes: "I have also neglected to try other keys where the Hellenic...