Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Eugene O'Neill play is somewhat like a confession without hope of absolution. The sense of sin lies too deep to be expiated. Past guilts abort present action and remorse is denied relief. The characters reach out to one another for affection and frustratingly embrace only the perturbed...
Things get a little ridiculous with a raid on a trailer truck, in which a score of pretty boys and a silver-haired gent in a Homburg seem to be having a pitch-dark love-in. But the movie picks up again with a moving, gut-tightening scene in which...
Dean Kessler pointed out that "the most effective evidence we have (against a student) is confession." Generally, he added, there wouldn't be enough evidence for a court case without self-incrimination.
The Soviet charge was based on the confession, probably obtained after torture, of Savinkov at his 1924 trial that Masaryk had given him 200,000 rubles. Historians accept the fact that Masaryk gave money to a number of Russians for a number of reasons: to help them escape to freedom...
Skeptical Talk. The legal implications are important, said Spiegel. To begin with, the statements of a person under hypnosis are clearly not guaranteed truth, despite his obvious belief in what he is saying. Dr. Spiegel suggested further that prosecution witnesses or defendants are perfectly capable of telling a self-damaging...