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According to a former member who left becauseshe was fed up with the authority structure of theChurch, there is subtle but omnipresent pressureto confess...
...were never explicitly told to confess oursins, but in fact there was always the sense thatwe weren't supposed to hide anything, that anysecret actions or doubts were by definition bad,and that we should therefore feel guilty aboutthem," the former member says...
SOUTHBORO--Dr. Ronald D. Hunt, director of Harvard's New England Primate Center, smiles as his visitors confess to missing a turn on the tortuous back roads of Southboro--a New England town just over a half-hour's drive from Boston. Secluded in Harvard's 140 acres of forest, behind a sign advertising the Harvard Southboro Campus, the primate center is easy to pass. While drop-in visitors are not welcome, the Center is at times willing to give tours of the facilities...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...siblings are "like . . . a family of elves . . . If one leaves, none of the rest of us grow up." Wise child. The children's fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph: "No one wants to hear about a good man being good. It's the failings people want to hear." Wise father...