Word: confessore
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Died. Hans Hofmann, 85, pioneer, teacher and father confessor of U.S. abstract expressionism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...cannot be wiped from the brains of the jurors." And this year the court seemed to lean toward the Frankfurter attitude as it struck down a similar kind of mental gymnastics: the old custom of asking the same jury to determine both the validity of a confession and the confessor's guilt or innocence. Even if the confession proves to have been coerced, how can a jury ignore what it says? In Jackson v. Denno, the court ruled that the judge must determine a confession's voluntariness before the jury may hear it (TIME...
...18th century English essayist Joseph Addison called it a "great magazine of mortality." For the British people, London's Westminster Abbey is also a monument of national immortality. Next week its bells will ring out to celebrate its 900th birthday. Built by Edward the Confessor on a filled-in island of thorn in the Thames River, it has over the centuries become a pantheon, the sacred environs where an enlightened empire crowns its kings and queens, and where common folk can pray. With its crowded multitude of funeral statuary, the Abbey is a kind of spiritual attic containing mementos...
Undertakers' Upholstery. As a pantheon, the Abbey is an incredible clutter. After a shrine was built to honor Edward the Confessor in the Abbey, British nobility rushed to be buried there. As a result, visitors today bump into tombs at every turn. William Morris called the funereal sculptures (see overleaf) "pieces of undertakers' upholstery." Ruskin labeled them "ignoble, incoherent fillings of the aisles...
...peak with the Prioress. We first see her kneeling in prayer to God the Father like a child before her bedstead. Unresolved Oedipal problems combined with her throbbing sex drives cause her to fall in love with Father Grandier in her fantasy. When he refuses to become her Confessor, her love changes to hatred and she half-consciously destroys him with accusations. Soon the childishness that lingers in every woman, so pronounced in this neurotic, turns credibly and terrifyingly into hysterics...