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...France's best contemporary books. What is more to the point, they are barely disguised in The Mandarins. It also gives a detailed account of the French heroine's affair with a Chicago novelist, so candid and anguished as to read like a letter to a confessor...
...based on an intellectual rapproachment, without any conscious striving toward a personal one." He is, in fact, highly critical of anything smacking of the paternal--although a role as a friendly uncle is at times appropriate. "A student has no right to expect his adviser to be a Father-Confessor," he says; "if he happens to find one, that is fine, as long as the adviser isn't too ready with advice. The adviser can be an amiable listener, but the student has no reason to expect him to be a sounding board...
...Dumb to Know. In whatever he did, Bernard DeVoto was tributary to nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...
...fear that may have kept them from confession for years. For absolution, penitents must talk directly to a priest; the church does not recognize telephone confessions. But, says Father Leppich of his telephone service, "it really is a confession-one that's a little easier on the confessor than the stuffy confessional...
...Hidden Ball. In 1899 Pop was hired as a combination athletic director, coach, trainer and father confessor for the incomparable athletes of the Government school for Indians at Carlisle, Pa. Eligibility rules were simple: students had to be Indians. Practice schedules were remarkably uncluttered by classes...