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Finally, a Portuguese jailbird named Celestino Madeiros, who had just appealed his own conviction for murder, passed a note to a prison guard: "I hear by confess to being in the South Braintree shoe company crime and Sacco and Vanzetti was not in said crime...
Flattery & Blame. Krock complains about the "social flattery" which the President directs toward Washington newsmen, but he is forced to confess: "I have myself on occasion been infused with the warmth of good will engendered by this courtship of a suitor of such charm and unique distinction...
...instance a gasman dresses up like an archbishop and makes one of the girls confess to him. Genet's idea is that the real archbishop, and other powerful men, are powerful only because other men imitate them in their fantasy lives. As the play continues, the masquerade gets more complicated. The pretenders become the men they have imitated, and their new power, in turn, depends on others who will imitate them. Mirror imagery and masquerade pervade every scene. There are no highpoints and no development; and the play never really ends, because the mirrors go on reflecting the same pattern...
...demanded an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, charged Bobby Kennedy and the Administration with attempts at "the rewriting of history." Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, retorted that he saw no useful purpose in "relaundering this linen-though I'll confess it has never seemed very clean...
...Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any great interest in the Church before. But now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...