Word: betrayals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Rattigan is not such a hack as to brush aside the serious point of his story; rather, he responds just enough to betray it. Far more theater man than playwright, he has a way, whether with a scene's falling apart or a character's fate, of being saved by the bell - by someone on the phone or someone at the door. He seems less to chronicle suffering than to exploit it. But he respects the rules, he scrupulously obeys the sign reading No Unhappiness Permitted After 10:45 p.m., even if it entails the most false...
...voice of a whole people. It is all that the world sees and hears and understands about a single nation. It expresses the character and the faith and the will of that nation. In this, a nation is like any individual of our personal acquaintance: the simplest gesture can betray hesitation or weakness, the merest inflection of voice can reveal doubt or fear...
...love you' -and adds 'honey chile' and a rebel yell when the caravan moves South." In Albuquerque he warned against "the Communist conspiracy within the U.S.," and promised: "Under me as President of the United States, federal agencies will deal sternly . . . with all who would betray their country and their freedom...
...Remembering that Richard M. Nixon was one of the men who helped unearth the data in the Alger Hiss matter reminded me very much of my high-school days when we read Cicero's Orations in Latin, and how Cicero castigated Catiline for electing to betray Rome rather than use his talents to further the Roman State. The same is so aptly true about these two men. Another interesting angle is that both of them are of the Society of Friends ... It would seem that of the two, Hiss had by far the greater advantages in influence and training...
Crisis of Conscience? "I have sometimes been asked at this point: What went on in the minds of those Americans, all highly educated men, that made it possible for them to betray their country? Did none of them suffer a crisis of conscience? The question presupposes that whoever asks it has still failed to grasp that Communists mean exactly what they have been saying for a hundred years: they regard any government that is not Communist, including their own, merely as the political machine of a class whose power they have organized expressly to overthrow by all means, including violence...