Word: confessore
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...turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that really appealed to his talents: a job with Manhattan's top-drawer management consulting firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Burns bagged a partnership within a year (still a company record) at age 34, became a corporate confessor for 30 of the nation's 100 top companies - including RCA. He dissected every department, hopped in between the balance sheets, shook up managements. Says he : "Consulting is a science because it is a study of principles, an art because people are involved...
...newspaperman." That may be one of Herb Matthews' problems in covering Cuba, where he is viewed more as a revolutionary institution than a working newsman. Explained another Cuba correspondent last week: "Whether he likes it or not, Matthews is regarded as being a sort of father confessor of Fidel Castro's revolution." Returning to Cuba this month, he was wined and dined by top Cuban government officials, spent some ten hours in close conversation with his friend Fidel. Talking to fellow newsmen, he steadfastly defended Castro. Did he feel any disenchantment at all? "No, I see no reason...
...which Sister Luke makes a grim effort to be a perfect nun and instead becomes a perfect nurse, she leaves her convent. The conflict as to "why" is not stressed so strongly in the film as in the book; the audience is left to ponder the "why." Her confessor in a darkened confessional scene tells Sister Luke that she is too hard on herself. It is difficult for her to accept a change in assignment from Belgian Congo to convent headquarters. It is difficult for her to love the enemy that has killed her father...
Simone was more pious than her mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
People instinctively turn to Dr. Chance as a kind of confessor, but when he takes on the troubles of a U.S. Catholic named Macgrady, he finds a case that would stretch the capacities of the wisest priest. Macgrady is a rich idler who has lived beyond his means. He has borrowed a fortune from the local crime syndicate, doctors in Madrid have told him that he has cancer, and he is nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might...