Word: confessionals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
VIEWED FROM THE 1950s, the Salem witch trials seemed a liberal's nightmare: a classic instance of arbitrary persecution by meddlers and busybodies, like the busybodies who accused obviously innocent reformers of trying to subvert the American republic. Arthur Miller's The Crucible gave this perspective its most eloquent convincing...
Isabella is the only one who comes close to self-fulfillment. She realizes that perhaps it is possible to infuse creativity into her roles, a creativity balanced between Flaminio's self-consuming and haphazard improvisation and Francesco's constricting memorization. She realizes that her talents have been developed as self...
Z [1969]. An enormously skillful political chiller that gave Constantine Costa-Gavras (who has since directed The Confession and State of Siege) his first taste of U.S. box office success. The script is based on the 1963 assassination of Greek pacifist Gregarios Lambrakis. This is a film about government complicity...
Mr. Douglas Schoen's reference in his article "A Liberal Demonstration" (March 11) to "the group of punk ass Republicans at Harvard trying to suck up to the vice president" falls below even the characteristically low standards of taste and fairness on which The Crimson prides itself. I can hardly...
So the executions were a travesty. But there remains the question of the trial itself. There are many factors which cast serious doubt upon the legitimacy of the entire process. Much of the doubt centers on the testimony of Harry Gold, who made a full confession, accepting a thirty year...