Word: confession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it violates the absolute right of property. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, without whose support the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills would have been defeated, sincerely considers the housing measure "absolutely unconstitutional" and intends to fight it to the death in the Senate. Even many Northern liberals confess that they are disturbed by the idea of depriving a man of the right to sell his property to anyone he likes. It is an idea that appears to go against the American grain; but the fact is that the concept of unassailable property rights has little support...
...lovers are Michael Caine, a nincompoop medical student bursting with latent virility, and Nanette Newman, a delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality of The Girl He Worships from Afar, is moved to confess: "I have often had a burning desire to nod." She, overcome by a rippling tendon in his forearm, is propelled into a swoony slow-motion ballet of plainly requitable passion...
...confess to an ignorance of the play which the Loeb production did absolutely nothing to alter. Yet it is by all odds a harmless experience, and fortunately a short one. In fact the whole bill is short; an hour and three quarters or thereabouts. The Lesson serves satisfactorily as a curtain-raiser; the Breasts of Tiresias, if nothing else, brings the curtain down again...
...loving father had been found at last. Boswell fell at the great man's feet to confess what a bad boy he had been and to beseech counsel. Johnson gave it without stint, and when Boswell sailed for the continent a few weeks later he made a two-day journey to Harwich to put him on board and to comfort a frightened young man he had known little more than two months...
...criminal lawyer, I confess that when I turned to the article, I had a preconceived feeling that a layman's oversimplification of complex technical issues, colored perhaps by a widespread attitude toward criminal law matters and constricted by the necessarily short format of your articles, could only result in an inconsequential piece of ephemera. This letter is penance for an injustice I did you. The article was a brilliant piece of writing, painstakingly fair and objective, and constituted a real public service. You have cracked a hardened artery in my working prejudices...