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Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Committee Meets October 2 To Tackle War Memorial Problem | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Meet October 2 On War Memorial Stalemate | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...have to confess that despite all the trouble they caused us, the onetime National Socialists had my sympathy, after the war even more than before; perhaps it was a captured paratrooper's obstinacy. But after returning home from captivity in the fall of 1946 my opinion began to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Therefore, writes Father White, material that the psychiatrist considers valuable may be rejected by the priest as self-infatuated garbage. "What a penitent is expected to confess is very clearly denned and restricted to the sins committed since his baptism or his previous confession. No such limitation can bind the analyst . . . The patient's 'good deeds' will interest . . . [the analyst] no less than his 'bad' ones . . . while dreams, free associations, spontaneous reactions and other manifestations of the unconscious will interest him still more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Couch & the Confessional | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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