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Word: confessionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In her morning prayers, when she closes her eyes, she feels the southern sun inside her belly somewhere, burning her dreams' sins, as it burns that southern world which had been her home, as it burns the life out of the people who exist somehow in its heat. As she...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

EVEN as a "new Europe" is trying to stitch itself together, an old one is doing its best to pull the Continent apart. For all the talk of unity, Europeans have not yet surmounted the chauvinistic prejudices that permit Belgians to think of neighboring Dutchmen as supercilious stuffed shirts, Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MINORITIES: The War Within the States | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

> When Samuel Tito Williams was arrested in 1947 for the bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Legal Briefs | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Likewise, this paragraph from a Crimson editorial responding to the Caldwell decision last summer still holds true: "Certainly members of the press do not constitute any elite class which should be granted special privileges before the Constitution. But the function of a free press, as outlined in the Constitution, demands...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Victory for the Press? | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

The hero of Touches is a 43-year-old college English teacher named Jeff Cooper who is fretting about a full professorship. Jeff (Robert Lansing) comes home from the classroom one day and tells his wife Katy (Barbara Bel Geddes) that he is falling in love with a nubile student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Happy Though Anxious | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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