Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartening to know that Reinhold Niebuhr not only has at last seen the evils of Marxism but has been man enough to confess it [TIME, Aug. 24]. On the other hand, the harm he has done to the American Protestant clergy is incalculable, for not only is he the key man at Union Theological Seminary, but the outstanding leader in the revival of theology in most of our denominations. Thousands of ministers have been soft toward Communism because of their own Marxist illusions. It is to be hoped that many of them will now follow Dr. Niebuhr in his repentance...
...still convalescing when a message arrived from the U.S. commander in Cologne, reinstating him as mayor. Five months later, when Cologne became a part of the British zone, Adenauer was sacked for "inefficiency." The British government has since offered to "confess its mistake," but Adenauer has no hard feelings? Being fired by the British made him a hero, and his popularity boomed. He began laying the foundations for his Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), and when the Allies summoned a Parliamentary Council, he was named its president...
...injustices that happened under capitalism. But, he now acknowledges, 'those of us who were critical of capitalism were ... too uncritical of the Marxist alternative." This was true, says Niebuhr, even of those who "rejected the Communist version of Marxism" and sought "democratic Marxism." Niebuhr is 'ready to confess to his complicity in these errors," but is still against "the ridiculous dogma of laissez faire...
...before the 1914-18 war-key figures posted and ... a whole conditioning process taking place while one looks helplessly on ... More effectively than anything else, [the BBC monopoly] enables those set in authority to impose on the rest of us a pattern of thought and of feeling ... I must confess that escape, even into the arms of J. Fred Muggs, is a delectable prospect...
...Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak to confess to her suitor, too decent to deceive him. To make matters worse, there were people who knew about her slip and were just envious enough to tell all to Agustin...