Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The free world looks to you for leadership, not a demonstration on how to make a public confession. Away with the sackcloth and ashes. You have much for which to be thankful.
"I must admit freely," Blake stated in his confession, "that there was not an official document on any matter to which I had access which was not passed on to my Soviet contact." Though Blake did not deal with atomic or scientific matters, explained Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller...
At the A.I.A. banquet, he received his medal with disarming modesty. "I make you my last confession," he said. "I live in the skin of a student." Then he was off to Manhattan for the ordeal at Columbia. He arrived on campus as sirens wailed for an air-raid drill...
Listening with every pore open to the gibes and chaffer of the two sophisticates is a green, young editorial hand, David Polonsky (obviously Angoff), a breathless and bewildered Boswell already a trifle disillusioned in his Johnson. Polonsky's trouble seems to be that he has come to the American...
In Rome recently a woman finished her confession and waited for her penance. "You will say six Hail Marys," said the priest, "and knit me a sweater-long sleeves, please."