Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a penchant for public confession is one of the most essential items of equipment for a would-be mahatma, Dalmia concentrated on owning up past misdeeds. He admitted that he had once been seized with passion for a distant female relative. "Shamelessly, I proposed a meeting to [my first...
Later he was summoned to visit an 18-year-old vagrant who was dying of tetanus. Much to his surprise he heard himself telling the boy: "You have just as good a chance with God as I have. You will be with Him soon, and I'll stay with...
Pampanga Governor José B. Lingad tried to defend the government, accused David of having once plotted to assassinate President Quirino. In the course of his attack, Lingad dropped an embarrassing admission. "The Huk dissidents," he said, "have been gaining ground. We are being pushed back to where we were...
The Damned Don't Cry (Warner), but Joan Crawford does, in this true-confession-type story of a woman's sinful progress from hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who...
A two-column article on the late Professor Francis O. Matthiessen by Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham has led to a flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a...