Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of a veiled married woman yearning for a sexual love that her husband cannot supply. As the woman's words and fragrant breath filter through the grille of the confessional, Giovanni is strangely excited. "I did not yearn to rest again in the safety of God's embrace, in his light and peace. I wanted to burn in the fire of love...
The Witness. There was good cause for her weariness. For the past four days, Marina had testified before the special commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that is conducting a long, painstaking investigation into the Kennedy assassination. For the most part, she merely substantiated the mass of evidence already...
A Terrified Confession. But as it turned out last week, a more likely reason for the FBI's silence was that it had been handed a solution to the case by a kidnaper who panicked, turned himself in, and blew the whistle on his confederates. John Irwin, 42, an...
That information, plus the confession of Irwin, enabled the FBI to arrest two other suspects-sometime Salesman Barry Keenan, 23, and Beach Bum Joseph Amsler. And John Irwin was still talking. Twice before, he said, he had been involved in a plan to snatch Sinatra. "Once in Arizona," he said...
"For the first time in all the 46 years of Soviet power," said Nikita in a remarkable confession, the party and the state can do something about "satisfying the requirements of the people." Moreover, new products must show better design, because it is "no longer possible to tolerate" Russian consumer...