Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of guilt, Sheen says, the Roman Catholic Church can lead him to God-through confession, absolution and penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
No One Must Know. The story was not quite the way Gerald said it was, but it was bad enough. Mrs. Sullivan had two sons (both now in the Marines) and a daughter. Her husband had deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of...
Humphrey's voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness...
Last April, during China's vice presidential elections, Kung cannonaded: "The election of Sun Fo to the Vice Presidency would be a confession of nationwide corruption." The next day, two truckloads of thugs wrecked the National Salvation Daily and put nine staffers in the hospital. Kung lost only one...
Having prepared their own destruction, Pelancey and Fingal are finally driven to half-ludicrous, half-pathetic efforts at confession and penance. Perhaps the worst of it, for Fingal, is seeing himself in his true identity, "in all its shabby unworthiness." Pelancey learns his bitter bit of wisdom: "What's...