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...errors. As De Gaulle once said: "Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." I confess to all the faults De Gaulle describes. I only hope they can be turned to worthwhile ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Other McGovern on the Stump | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...that I find this line of reasoning disingenuous, but I must confess that I have the deepest admiration for the artless sincerity with which certain of my colleagues have defended...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Angola, Gulf, and Harvard | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

...these characters, the bar is a spar to which they cling in the shipwreck of existence and over which they confess their hidden better selves. These confessional arias are what they have always been in Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Clinging to a Spar | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...thinking is, I confess, an example of sexist anti-piggism. Alan Helmert Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST EXTENSION | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...also Director of the Harvard Summer School, said in the letter. "Both of these jobs are now deserving of more time and ingenuity than is available to one person. The time has come to make a choice and I have chosen, with more reluctance than I am prepared to confess, the more general task of the Summer School and Continuing Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crooks to Resign As Dudley Master | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

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