Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced to be shot. He escapes from his improvised jail but it does him no good. The Sinn Feiners track him to Katie's shabby lodging where he has crawled off to hide. This time, the bullets reach him as he tries to run away...
...must be seen to be believed. His mouth may be likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted a few almost inaudible hisses when the villain put in his dastardly appearance. There are a good many skits which, we must admit, seemed strikingly spontaneous...
...wrung his hands. "I am a hare's foot-a scared rabbit-but I am a good German. I am no spy! When I was going from Munich for a little holiday in Switzerland an official called me 'You coward!' and then he said. 'Confess-or we will make you confess...
...stories was translated. Author Neagoe writes in English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila's Confession") is as good as anything in the Decameron, has the same flavor of good-natured tolerance: a peasant wife, caught misbehaving by her husband, persuades him he is possessed by an evil imagination, makes him go to the priest to confess the whole thing...
...University were to make clear on what grounds it opposed a social center for the commuters and there are some, its position would be tenable. If it believed in the other solution, a new abode for the commuters, it might confess this opinion frankly. It would then be possible to debate the problems inherent in the acquirement of a building, the maintenance charges, and meal arrangements...