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...long ago, no self-respecting intellectual would have admitted owning a television set, anymore than he would dare to express a liking for Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...
...have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...
Shelley is willing to confess that the act he originally planned for himself was never meant for the likes of The Ed Sullivan Show. When he was discharged from the Navy as an asthmatic in 1943, he was 17, and he entered Chicago's Goodman Theater to study acting. "I was pretty damn good," he confesses further, but he would end up working at a Daytona Beach, Fla. hotel. ("I ran around with a volleyball bothering people who didn't want to be bothered...
Whenever there is a tremor and a turn at the top of the Communist world, ritual requires that the losers be brought forth to confess their errors, praise their vanquishers and-possibly-face the consequences. So far Khrushchev has decreed that Old Bolshies need not die, but just fade away. But the acrid gun smell of the past lurks around the Kremlin, and last week Nikita Khrushchev invoked another ritual of the Stalinist era: the public recantation, admitting to mistakes so that the boss may escape the rap for them...
...respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...