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But ecclesiastical decisions are not swayed by broken doors nowadays-if indeed they ever were. Three days later, the ringleaders wrote a penitent letter to church authorities apologizing to the archbishop and explaining that they had been misinformed: apparently there was no old Dutch tradition about breaking into churches, after...
"No matter what were my subjective hopes," groveled Writer Sun in a penitent doubletalk that sounded like a direct translation from the Russian, "the objective realization has proved to me that The Life of Wu Hsun ... is a movie harmful to the people. I can only hope to learn a...
The jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia...
In 1902, Maria Goretti, daughter of poor sharecroppers on the Pontine marshes south of Rome, was eleven years old. When 19-year-old Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray...
He lost his job in Stalin's private secretariat. He found himself stuck in a secondary role in the Agricultural Administration. He dropped from fourth to ninth in Politburo listings (Zhdanov moved up from eighth to fourth). For his fling in ideological heresy, Malenkov was properly penitent and rueful...