Word: confessant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of Bloom County's February installments, I confess that I cannot find any examples of its having "tastelessly poked fun at several groups." unless one considers sado-masochists and giant snorklewackers to be oppressed minorities whose fragile self-images must be protected at all coasts. Grady Catterall...
...willing victims of Hometown Food Nostalgia and confess to lifetime allegiances to such special American foods as the creamy caramels made by the nuns of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa; the thick potato chips fried in pure lard from Dieffenbach's in Womelsdorf. Pa. and the puffy Common Crackers from the Vermont Country Store in Rockingham...
...must confess an increasing sense of unease," wrote Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky in his annual report of 1975-1976, when "at every Commencement the President of Harvard University welcomes new graduates of the college 'to the company of educated men and women.'" This visceral queasiness and a sense of the need for a re-articulation of "educational priorities" led the Dean and the Harvard Faculty to reject the General Education program and create the "Core" curriculum...
Writers who journey through the accounts of his life almost always confess some bafflement about why he was such a great figure in his time and remains so in ours. British Historian Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much...
...hand while a galvanometer wired to the cans ostensibly indicates emotional stress. While the subject is "on the cans," a Scientologist "auditor" quizzes him to uncover any embarrassing or painful experiences in his past. All such traumas are recorded. Defectors have claimed that church members are often required to confess their wrongdoings in signed statements, which have sometimes been used as blackmail to keep dissidents silent. In the late 1970s, to supplement dianetics, Hubbard developed the "purification rundown," which he said would rid the body of the ill effects of chemicals, drugs, smog and radiation through the use of vitamins...