Word: recant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone. Mather followed up at once by composing a tract, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, which was instrumental in persuading the Governor to end the sorry business; and, visiting in prison a number of persons who had under pressure confessed to witchcraft, Mather got eight of them to recant...
...sponsored by the CIA; since then, Iran has been run as a virtual police state, and its educational system has come under increasing control by the repressive regime. Curriculum is strictly controlled by the state, and professors who express views opposing those of the regime are tortured until they recant. The Shah is friendly with the United States, however; apparently that's all Harvard has cared about since it began its $1.5 million involvement in Iran...
...receive death sentences. Even some of the hard-boiled fascist sympathizers have moments of recrimination. But developments are few. Once the injustice of the justice system is clear, the movies hobbles along on sheer irony. There are some momentary setbacks in the judicial process when some of the judges recant, but they are quickly overruled by higher authorities...
...insisting that the earth revolved around the sun was pushing things too far, and the church got in a terrible tear. The idea that the earth was not the center of the universe held disturbing theological and philosophical implications, unacceptable to Rome. Galileo was urged, finally forced, to recant. He spent his last years in a villa outside Florence in an enforced isolation that was more like imprisonment...
...perhaps only fair that it should seek a truce with its right-wing extremists. Now word has come from Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, whose diocese includes the Slaves' farm, that the excommunication of the aging, ailing Feeney was removed secretly in 1972 without a requirement that he recant. The Vatican's doctrinal office acted, with at least pro forma approval by the Pope, after a plea from Cushing's successor, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros...