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Word: confessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholics who became daily communicants and gave countless leisure hours to work for the church. Some clerics who distrusted the "Spanish" intensity of the course have changed their minds after undergoing a Cursillo. Says the Rev. Francis Norris, a theologian at San Francisco's diocesan seminary: "I must confess that my deepest experience of our common life in Christ took place during the Cursillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Little Courses | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...complex, confused, and unsanitary world in which we all find ourselves it is possible to think of Harvard's plumbing as a kind of storm drain of light in a very dark cesspool, and I must confess I sometimes do just this. But I also know that the figure is not really an apt one, for Harvard's pipes and drains, praise God, have never been severed from the broad sewers of city and state and are certainly not so now. Instead, they are rather intimately involved with all the pipes and drains of Cambridge, and, indeed, of Massachusetts...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: The Age of the Plumber | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

...confess that I just can't make up my mind about Hobbing's story. At times it seems trite, pretensious, completely predictable, and lacking in subtlety. Other times it impresses me as a poignant tightly-constructed narrative. Is this moving or is it hackneyed...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Lion Rampant | 2/29/1964 | See Source »

...altogether agreeable. "If I'd known they were going to run it," he said, "I would have tried to stop it." In the second place, the ad applauded Editor Patrick's "indifference to the pressures of advertisers and the heckling of publishers." Publishers rarely buy ads to confess that they heckle their editors, or to praise their editors for resisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: One-Upmanship | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...down the elevator shaft. "I've not touched her," mutters Cust, wiping imaginary blood from his hands. But she has touched his anesthetized conscience. Ironically, Cust is appointed to Vanan's post, but the final scene finds him climbing wearily, agonizingly up the stage-rear steps to confess his guilt to the supreme justice of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Day at the End of Night | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

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