Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip's saintliness lay in his utter simplicity (he consistently refused papal offers of a cardinalate), his overwhelming love which inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to...
The courtroom was spellbound during the three hours of his eager confession. Said a British prosecutor: "A fine speech." Said a Russian colonel: "I am amazed." "It's more than I expected from the ugly one," said Keitel (who had tried to place all responsibility on Hitler). Goring (who...
On Humor. "Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. . . . The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence.. . . Laughter is ... not only the vestibule of the temple of confession...
True Confession. In Bristol, England, the Midland Bank got a chewed-up letter, on its envelope a faintly apologetic note from the postoffice: "Eaten by snails in the letter box."
Into exile, pauper fashion (first in France; later, in the U.S.), went spare, spry Simplicissimus Editor Franz Schoenberner. Confessions of a European Intellectual is the witty, intelligent story of his life-a story whose capacity for hard sense and an all too rare humor gives it a distinct place in...