Word: confessionally
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In the autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill's fictional mother admonishes through her morphine haze: "It's wrong to blame your brother. He can't help being what the past has made him." These words haunt the play's sequel A Moon for the Misbegotten...
It is difficult to sustain interest in a drama that is all talk, and rarely literarily interesting talk, as it progresses from the comic repartee of the afternoon to the tragic confession of the night. Although the dialogue is convincing and engrossing, O'Neill rarely achieves eloquence. Like the farm...
Sprague recalls: "She said she would trade her life for a guilty plea. But in her own mind she had determined she would trade us as little as possible. Her initial confession didn't lead anywhere." Sprague booked her into a hotel and began a series of lie-detector...
"She was made of iron," the polygraph operator recalls. "It was a test of mental determination-us against her. And she was built like Daisy Mae. Strong. Part way through the test, she told us she had willed that she would forget all the details of the case." At this...
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 that the privilege of confidentiality be bestowed upon the press and its functionaries, reporters. It is a...