Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on for years-every time Bernard Shaw put on a new play, British critics said it showed the influence of Ibsen, or Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or some other subversive foreigner. "I confess," cried Shaw (in 1906), "there is something flattering in this simple faith in my accomplishment as a linguist and my erudition as a philosopher." But it was high time, he said, for him to scotch this "unpatriotic habit" by setting the critics straight...
Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...
Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...
...have to confess that despite all the trouble they caused us, the onetime National Socialists had my sympathy, after the war even more than before; perhaps it was a captured paratrooper's obstinacy. But after returning home from captivity in the fall of 1946 my opinion began to change...
Therefore, writes Father White, material that the psychiatrist considers valuable may be rejected by the priest as self-infatuated garbage. "What a penitent is expected to confess is very clearly denned and restricted to the sins committed since his baptism or his previous confession. No such limitation can bind the analyst . . . The patient's 'good deeds' will interest . . . [the analyst] no less than his 'bad' ones . . . while dreams, free associations, spontaneous reactions and other manifestations of the unconscious will interest him still more...