Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else for our innocent," a line of the Duchesse de Guermantes in Remembrance. The laconic Dreyfus was credited with two apocryphal lines, "I've never had a moment's peace since I left Devil's Island," and "Shut up, all of you, or I'll confess...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...
...Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require an atheist to go to church...
With much chagrin I confess that I too had forgotten the "forgotten man"-the $20,000-a-year corporation executive [July 6]. What can we do to help ? Perhaps you could publish a list of the more destitute of these underprivileged executives so that if some of the rest of us have a little left over at the end of the month, we can tide them over until Hupp Corp.'s next bonus...
...Trains for God? During and since the war, Snow and his colleagues have interviewed about 25% of Britain's 125,000-odd scientific workers. "I confess that even I, who am fond of them and respect them, was a bit shaken. We hadn't expected that the links with traditional culture should be so tenuous." When asked what books they read, the scientists said: " 'Well, I've tried a bit of Dickens,' rather as though Dickens were an extraordinarily esoteric, tangled and dubiously rewarding writer...