Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were moments of atmospheric appreciation at other times while I was an undergraduate: Lowell House's small courtyard, accessorized with snow and red mittens, is perhaps my favorite visual image, along with the sight of the blue bell tower from the river (not a wholly ocular confrontation, I confess--this sight was always accompanied by some narration like "Hey, I know somebody who lives there...
...night, some of the Eight confess, they have anxiety dreams. Nothing so obvious as visions of gold medals around the necks of the Romanians or of losing the final by the stroke of an oar. During these tense, pre-Olympic days, what disturbs the sleep of a member of the U.S. women's eight Olympic rowing team is the idea of being late for practice--not missing it, mind you, but merely being a little late--or in some other way letting down her fellow rowers. "I had this dream that I was supposed to bring the inside...
During the party-leadership campaign, Netanyahu brought a U.S.-style media scandal upon himself. Hoping to head off damaging rumors, he appeared on the main TV-news program to confess that he had cheated on his wife Sara. He charged that a political rival, by which he plainly meant former Foreign Minister David Levy, was trying to blackmail him with an incriminating videotape. Police found no evidence to support the charge, and Netanyahu was compelled to apologize to Levy...
...Babbs and I fly south to ask our incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
...forced to do much self-reflection after reading Elizabeth T. Bangs' "Perspectives" editorial ("Put A Little Class Back in Our Lives") in the April 1 Crimson. I must confess, I am one of those that would embarrass her, for if I were to go to a Hasty Pudding production I would probably do so in an "unrefined" pair of jeans and a t-shirt...