Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Empty Chair. On the summit's first day, he had broken up the meeting before it could even begin, with his demands that President Eisenhower punish the guilty U.S. "aggressors." But he did not turn around and go home. Did he really expect a contrite confession from Eisenhower after...
They had Powers' "confession," too ("I plead guilty to the fact that I have flown over Soviet territory"), but any suggestion that his prompt admission marked him as a defector was quickly denied in Washington. In an age of such sophisticated third-degree methods as "truth se rums," agents...
World Come of Age. In the longest and best known of Bonhoeffer's books, The Cost of Discipleship (1937), he developed his idea of the essence of Christianity: the answer to Christ's call, "Follow me." Bonhoeffer's answer is neither a confession of faith nor the...
For very different reasons, the two names that may lastingly identify the 1959-60 TV season are Charles Van Doren and David Susskind. With his now-famed, melodramatic confession ("I was deeply involved in a deception"). Van Doren exposed not only the quiz fakes but the underlying shoddiness of the...
No longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee...