Word: confessional
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They chuckled and even laughed aloud between phrases of their most damaging admissions. As Vishinsky would get half through a sentence the prisoner he was supposed to be grilling would snatch the words out of his mouth and finish the sentence before the prosecutor could-and since it was the...
Back to 1929. Bukharin last week expansively announced that he confessed ''responsibility" for all major crimes mentioned, both those he had known of and those he had not. He compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators'...
It was this advice which the Dictator rejected when he decided to wipe out the kulaks, crack down on private traders, and industrialize at super speed. It was made more like a confession by Bukharin's describing it in court last week as "the platform for the restoration of...
* The gallery consists always of some 200 Russians who appear to be workmen let out for a boisterous holiday, crack jokes and jubilate among themselves during the trials of bigwigs, invariably cheer the death sentences. †To whom Krestinsky like the others had made his signed confession.
Sex certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant...