Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawyers in or out of government enjoy a position of personal trust. The attorney-client privilege allows a client to confess to his lawyer without fearing that the lawyer can later be made to testify about their talks. Even this has been used to explain the actions of the Watergate lawyers. Whatever they did, the argument goes, was done for the President as client. That, too, is a poor justification. In a 1967 Virginia case, Attorney Richard Ryder took stolen money and a sawed-off shotgun from his client and stored them in his own safe-deposit...
...jutting jaw, broad shoulders and close-cropped hair conveying an unmistakable aura of power, John Connally strode into the White House briefing room last week to hold a press conference. But appearances were somewhat deceiving. The tall Texan was there to confess to a loss of power at the White House. After a mere six weeks as President Nixon's adviser, he announced he was planning to resign some time in the summer and go off on a long-deferred trip around the world...
Telltale blunders, however, gave the caller away. Though the accent sounded Southern, the voice was too gravelly with whisky, and the speech too ungrammatical, for Martha. The impostor went on to confess: "I am half drunk-I do drink a little bit. Why shouldn't I drink a little bit?" Anyone who has received a call from Martha Mitchell knows that she consistently denies having downed a drop of alcohol before getting on the phone. The impersonator said she had attended the state dinner for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev the night before (actually, Martha was at her Manhattan apartment...
...Greeks, the Oresteia was an exemplary tale of moral downfall designed to evoke pity and terror. Rabe's tone is pejorative, like that of a prosecuting attorney who is pressing play goers to confess that all men are bloody-minded beasts. There is no court of appeal in The Orphan. God is dead, absolute power has produced absolute corruption and society is a cracked veneer of hypocrisy...
High school physics students experience the same changes in attitudes within four years of graduation regardless of their curricula, Watson concluded. "These enormous changes in attitudes are tremendously significant, but I have to confess that I don't know what caused them," he said...