Word: confesses
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...civil rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess the sin of hypocrisy now and vow not to delude the people again...
...Catholics who became daily communicants and gave countless leisure hours to work for the church. Some clerics who distrusted the "Spanish" intensity of the course have changed their minds after undergoing a Cursillo. Says the Rev. Francis Norris, a theologian at San Francisco's diocesan seminary: "I must confess that my deepest experience of our common life in Christ took place during the Cursillo...
...criminology professor in charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants. On sprawling campuses, where classes may be miles apart, students confess that they occasionally pick courses not for intellectual interest, but for parking proximity. Harvard men drop their Wellesley dates long before the girls are ready to call it a night - the boys have to rush back to Cambridge and park...
...complex, confused, and unsanitary world in which we all find ourselves it is possible to think of Harvard's plumbing as a kind of storm drain of light in a very dark cesspool, and I must confess I sometimes do just this. But I also know that the figure is not really an apt one, for Harvard's pipes and drains, praise God, have never been severed from the broad sewers of city and state and are certainly not so now. Instead, they are rather intimately involved with all the pipes and drains of Cambridge, and, indeed, of Massachusetts...
...confess that I just can't make up my mind about Hobbing's story. At times it seems trite, pretensious, completely predictable, and lacking in subtlety. Other times it impresses me as a poignant tightly-constructed narrative. Is this moving or is it hackneyed...