Word: confession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Government prosecutors have amply proved their ability to persuade white- collar offenders on Wall Street to confess and plead guilty, but can the Feds convict anybody in a court trial? In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations, Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly deadlocked...
Defending his tactics, King writes "It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent-register may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension...
...Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into conversation about his innermost thoughts. Still, he refuses to confess ownership of the Mercedes...
...this sounds plausible to you, you're going to love True Believer. You'll probably even like the end of the movie, when Dodd does his best Perry Mason impression, getting the guilty man up on the stand and (suprise!) forcing him to break down and confess...