Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Religious history books will be talking about Schuller 100 years from now," contends Religious Historian Dennis Voskuil. The question, Voskuil says, is whether he will be remembered as a theologian or a showman. Like his early model, Positive Thinker Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller combines an affirmative outlook with old-fashioned...
For years now, the Burger Supreme Court has snipped at the boundaries of Warren Court precedents--too timidly for some conservatives; heavy-handedly to many liberals' way of thinking. The process has been especially prevalent in criminal-justice cases, and the court, having again scheduled a hefty batch of such...
When initially questioned, Michael Elstad blurted out, "Yes, I was there." Taken to sheriff's headquarters, Elstad was given a Miranda warning for the first time, then asked again about the crime, whereupon he signed a full confession. But an Oregon appeals court reversed his conviction, saying that the first...
Criminal-law experts are unsurprised by the seemingly liberal thrust of the decision. "I would have been surprised if they had gone the other way," says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. The right of everyone to an effective defense is endorsed by virtually all political factions, notes Yale...
Walser does not quite believe Fevvers' confession, and rightly so. Most of its details are incredible. Buffeted by cruel fate, the bird-girl sinks to enforced servitude in the establishment of one Madame Schreck, who runs a particularly nasty pornographic peep show. Fevvers, by now known throughout the London demimonde...