Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The information is often as surprising as it is valuable. In one St. Louis suburban parish, a priest discovered that 60% of his flock still prefer devotions to the Virgin Mary - though some church reformers in recent years have endeavored to de-emphasize the importance of Mary in Catholic ritual...
FOR Kennedy, then, '68 is the lesser of at least two evils. It is also a confession of deep political unwellbeing. Even as he announced his candidacy, the junior Senator from New York looked less like a future President than ever before. He has set a nearly impossible goal for...
Cold as a Coot. In making visibility "the primary function of the King," says De Gramont, Louis XIV reduced the royal drama to pageantry-style's exquisite confession of meaninglessness. Even the King's defecation became a public act staged on a stool decorated with mother-of-pearl...
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A shattering fictionalization of the futile 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia, based on the confession of the man who led it.
He was also systematically starved ("The fish soup is bitter and floating with eyes. I swallow the soup, eyes and all"), but he was not allowed to die because his jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned...