Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet authorities clearly tried to make an example of Shcharansky, hoping that his fate would serve as a warning to other dissidents who might seek to air their hopes and grievances to foreigners. Despite the KGB'S best efforts, Shcharansky refused to cooperate in his own humiliation. The secret police...
The Soviet move against the two newsmen, the New York Times's Craig R. Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold D. Piper, was unwarranted and unprecedented. The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti...
Gamsakhurdia, who was a member of a group monitoring Soviet response to the 1975 Helsinki accord that is supposed to guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three...
Off-camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This...
The object of the camera's attention soon moves to a close-up of ecstatic neophytes screaming to their follow trainees that "I am here because I want to change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the...