Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I, Julius Steiner, hereby make the worst confession in my life. I am aware that in doing so I am disclosing the greatest scandal in the history of West Germany."
Steiner's confession was the latest, and most startling, in a series of revelations about a political scandal that West Germans have dubbed Watergate am Rhine. Although substantially different from the scandal enveloping the White House, the Steiner affair involves not just bribery but cover-up attempts and even...
Under the new law the Ervin committee is able to offer only use immunity, which, once approved by Judge Sirica, can be imposed on Dean whenever the committee chooses. But to testify with such limited protection, says a Dean friend, would be like going before the committee "with his fanny...
The Rev. William E. Hill of Hopewell, Va., charged that the parent denomination is "filled with saboteurs and led by corrupt men who are perverting the Gospel." Oddly, the conservative rebels who depart will do so at a time when conservatives are winning important concessions in the church on the...
Lumet's direction strives to give to material that is neither edifying nor suspenseful a fake profundity, stretching it to unconscionable lengths. But at least he allows his actors plenty of room to roam. Connery's confession to his wife (Vivien Merchant) of his long struggle to save...