Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fear itself is corrosive. Fear and freedom cannot co-exist....I am deeply disturbed when I encounter American citizens of blameless character and unquestioned loyalty who confess they fear to enter a debate or take a position not in conformity with the views of certain political leaders, because of the fancied danger they will be thought suspect...
After a long, tinhorn odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...
...know why no one has mentioned this before or what good it will do anyone to have it said now, but I must confess to having been angry enough to want to see my complaint in print. What upset me was the wholley unwarrented treatment of the various religious groups in the Yearbook (317) References to magic and so forth in the article on the Christian Scientists, a flippant remark about money and parties in the one on the Catholic Club, and others, none of them worthy of reproduction, set a new high for bad taste...
Even the few times during the evening that he plays serious music, Borge keeps his audience alert by mixing a strain from "Farmer in the Dell" into the classic. For most of the evening, however, he is introducing his few selections: "I must confess I know only two numbers: one is 'Clair de Lune.' The other isn't." And then he laughs, a sound like seals barking...
Bhave wandered into areas from which the police had warned him to stay away, but he was unharmed. At first he preached ahimsa (Gandhi's old nonviolence), but he soon saw that this was not enough. "I confess," he said, "that the incendiary and murderous activities did not unnerve me, because I know that the birth of a new culture has always been accompanied in the past by blood baths. What is needed is not to get panicky, but to keep our heads cool and find a peaceful means of resolving the conflict. The police are not expected...