Word: betrayal
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After the opening scene, a firing squad execution, an unseen narrator announces that Decision Before Dawn will explain why a spy risks his life to betray his own country. The picture never quite does this, but in trying, Twentieth Century Fox has produced a semi-documentary melodrama that can be best described in superlatives...
...begin with, I did not betray, as you imply, five "students" by revealing their names. Of the five, one is a professional revolutionary, and the other four are fellow-travellers well enough known that they were recognized at sight by American correspondents. Their names are contained in AP, UP, and INS dispatches, August 5-August...
Fields of concentration betray little difference in number of alcoholic students. Pugh reveals that the heavier drinkers are more in Arts, Letters, and Philosophy departments. Social drinkers are mainly In the Social Studies, History and Literature. All kinds of drinkers go into the Natural Sciences...
...social life becomes intolerable, if not impossible, unless justice and benevolence govern the operations of the state and relationships between individuals and groups . . . Expressions such as 'my life is my own affair,' ... or 'in politics anything goes' are all too common today. They betray a gross misunderstanding of the moral order...
Judging Brutus. In his tilt with the absolutists, Forster employs one absolute of his own: moral courage. "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Such a choice may scandalize the modern reader ... It would not have shocked Dante, though. Dante places Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome . . . Love and loyalty to an individual can run counter...