Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided through to a reconciliation. All Julia Shelhamer knows about most of the people who call her is that they seem to get real help from her sure faith and reassuring words: "I know the Lord will answer prayer. Will you pray with me? If you will only confess your sins, God will take that sin away and remove the feeling of guilt...
Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...
Solidarity Symbol. Her persecutors charged her vaguely with "counterrevolutionary organization and agitation against the Soviet State," and refused to give her a trial, but demanded that she sign a confession anyhow. Not knowing what to confess, she refused-and drew a five-year sentence in Siberia as a "socially dangerous element." Among the starved, louse-bitten, work-weary inmates of Karaganda concentration camp, Comrade Buber lost her last illusions about the Kremlin dictatorship. One early incident was enlightening: when she asked for a "reopening" of her case, she was tossed into a punishment compound...
...Many citizens hope he will belatedly confess his inadequacy and resign," it began. "If he does not do so, other methods may be considered...
...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...