Word: confessor
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Around them, though, the school is seething with suspicion and suppression. A priest-teacher, whose mind is slowly cracking with frustrated desire, threatens to take Alexandre away from Georges by becoming Alexandre's confessor. Finally the two boys are discovered in a clandestine meeting by a humane priest whose wisdom has been too cramped by his spiritual discipline to foresee the tragedy he triggers...
Lovers & Cars. The 38 stories read like the notebook of a benign confessor. Most of them are about women-beautiful and rich, wise and foolish, vital and declining, ensnaring and ensnared in a love trap. Or if not in love, then remembering what it was like and regretting the flight of passion. Maurois' women give to friendship only what they steal from love; they give to love only what their husbands have forgotten how to take. His couples are always married but rarely to one another. They change lovers the way Americans trade cars. The transfers usually take place...
Died. Brian Epstein, 32, discoverer, manager and father confessor of the Beatles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Another figure who deserves a place in those ranks is Martin himself, who has emerged as Britain's top pop-record producer, moved to his own label, and started writing his own songs and movie scores, but who will continue to be musical father-confessor and producer of the Beatles on EMI. Where they are concerned, as he says proudly, "I make things possible...
...model of discretion. In spite of the jacket's phosphorescent hints of lurid reminiscences about Proust and Picasso, Stravinsky and Nijinsky, the author does not intrude upon their saintly privacies. He also rarely allows the reader to enter into his own. He speaks from a distance, less confessor than professor, looking up from his lectern every few moments to savor appreciative glances...