Word: confession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wooster tells the story about how he and his former fiancee, Florence Cray, try to steal his uncle Willoughby's manuscript and are foiled by his uncle and Edwin, the boy scout, the audience engages in non-stop laughter. Wooster's description of his uncle trying to make him confess is particularly hilarious. Wooster says: "It was most disgusting spectacle--this white-haired man who should have been thinking of the hereafter stood there lying like an actor...
...steer Soviet Jews to the Holy Land, only to have most of them veer off to the U.S. Jerusalem complains that Jews who use exit visas for Israel to get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...when the subject came up, I had to confess that I was living with other people in Thayer and Mass. Hall. What could have been totally friendly became tense for awhile because I still didn't know myself...
Under interrogation, quite a few members of John le Carre's vast and devoted reading public might confess a gnawing secret: the wish that the author would get on with his stories a bit more speedily than he has been doing for the past 15 or so years. Ever since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), in this view, Le Carre has been unduly shifting emphasis from action to atmospherics; his espionage plots remained splendidly inventive, but they arrived splintered into ambiguities worthy of Henry James. Which was fine, maybe, for those who wanted their cold war shenanigans decked...