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Word: penitente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is highly unlikely that any will. Most newsmen consider their relationships with their sources as sacrosanct as those of a lawyer with a client or a priest with a penitent. They react to one of their number moonlighting for a federal agency as they do to police, FBI or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Wrong Occupation | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

The five-day state visit was clearly off to a bad start, even though penitent Turkish authorities promptly sacked the security chief and promised to send the forgetful official to some Turkish equivalent of Siberia. That night at dinner, President Cevdet Sunay gently reminded his guest that Turkey intended to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: Her Own Mistress | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

King learned of the decision one morning while he was shaving. A letter arrived asking him to resign. "I said certainly not," he recalled on TV as he discussed the episode. "If I do, it will look as if I was caught with my hand in the till." Expecting his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: King Deposed | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Publisher Ralph Ginzburg blazed such paths of prurience in advertising his magazine Eros that he was haled into court on obscenity charges and given a five-year sentence that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Still free pending a hearing for a reduced sentence, Ginzburg is anything but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Rear-Garde | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

Unchallenged Principle. Even in an age when Catholic theologians are willing to challenge almost every other established doctrine or discipline, no one has yet challenged the principle that private confessions should be secret. Under church law, a priest may be automatically excommunicated if he divulges any information told him by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: How Secret the Confessional? | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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