Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unrealistic objective that every captive must attempt to preserve American prestige, the code need not desert all standards. Rather, it should rely upon the instinctive, more sacred American justification for sacrifice; group loyalty, aimed at minimizing the hardships of fellow prisoners. Even if prisoners of war are allowed to confess their own "crimes" freely to lessen torture, they must not lighten their burden by betraying fellow prisoners. Each prisoner should be obligated to withstand torture whenever possible to prevent incriminating a fellow prisoner. Also disclosure of vital information, bringing danger to American troops, deserves the full punishment...
...value system embodied in the American Way of Life. Where the American Way of Life approves of love of one's fellow man, most Americans confidently assert that they practice such love; where the American Way of Life disapproves, the great mass of Americans do not hesitate to confess that they do not practice it, and apparently feel very little guilt for their failure...
...trial both men confess, Rab as a last pious rite to the party, Father Janos to save his friends and fellow priests from further torture. But before he mounts the gallows, Rab, feeling "an absolute void within me,"' kneels before Father Janos and asks "to die in the peace of faith." Author Kovács sometimes mashes a thumb with his literary chisel, but when he hits the historic mark, the apocalyptic tableau of hammer and sickle v. the cross stands out in bold, fresh relief...
...response to your review of the Swedish film One Summer of Happiness, but the letters on your article "Sin & Sweden" are even funnier . . . The last time I was in Sweden was in 1951. As a young man in search of, let us say, joie de vivre I must confess that I found less of it there than in most countries in which I have traveled...
...Socialist-run Tourcoing, an industrial town with 80,000 inhabitants, the Socialist Youth Federation is the largest political group for younger workers, students and office employees; it has 100 members. The Communists confess to the same trouble among their faithful. Their movement, camouflaged under the name Union of Republican Youth of France, has 100,000 members, many of them uncertain of their political sentiments. "You just can't talk politics directly to youth these days," explains a young Communist leader. "Take an issue like compulsory military service. Of course we're opposed in principle to a large army...