Word: confession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team it had earlier annihilated, 82-31, was the home advantage. For instance, a team is hardly ever disqualified at home, only on the road. It's a copout to blame the Crimson's defeat on such a nebulous sports phrase as "home advantage," but I must confess I just can't think of any other reason...
...such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into her fears as her needs, forcing him to confess his humanity as she confesses hers, in words as spare as a prayer: "I want, and I am difficult...
...Well, let's be honest. Let's face the facts. As you know, before this administration took office, the so-called New Morality swept the nation. I don't think I have to go into the sordid details about that. Many of us--good, solid Americans--were upset. I confess there were times when I thought of being upset myself. You know, that would be the popular and easy thing to do. But this administration is pledged to leading the nation, not following it. If there's going to be a New Morality, we're going to be in charge...
...confess I laughed at the 1968 Time parody which reported a rocky romance between Tricia Nixon and Barry Goldwater III: "Tricia recently began avoiding 'that boring creep' and letting it be known around Washington that she'd 'rather have skin cancer than one of his disgusting hickeys...
...tell you how I enjoyed your article "When to Confess [Sept. 3]." I am 14 and have been raised a Roman Catholic, but I haven't been to confession for a year and a half, purely because I no longer believe in it. The idea that the Vatican disapproves of waiting for the sacrament of penance till a child is nine or ten burns me up. I know the definition of sin; yet I have no sense of sin. I ask God for forgiveness at least once a week for all my sins, consciously or unconsciously committed. When...