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...Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends,'' wrote Francis Bacon to Lord William Cecil, "for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
...members of Gamblers Anonymous confess and reconfess their compulsion at each meeting, starting off each purgative session with the statement: "My name is- -; I am a compulsive gambler." Prayer plays a large part in the rehabilitation process. G.A.'s are guided by the society's Twelve Commandments ("We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." "We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all"). Some chapters place small newspaper ads on the day of a scheduled meeting, but G.A. does...
...confess I am worried, but I am not afraid." Thus Prime Minister Harold Macmillan last week confided to a Tory caucus his feelings about Britain's deepening economic crisis. To the average Briton in pub and park, basking in the summer sun, there were few signs of anything even to worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety...
...Benjamin Britten was over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
...occasion demands, Barry Goldwater can and does quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment to groups who come expecting to hear a conservative egghead. Goldwater himself is the first to confess that he is not a profound political thinker. "I'm not a philosopher," he says. "I'm a salesman trying to sell the conservative view of government...