Word: betrayals
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Their older sister, however, stood apart, sweeping the courtyard, her silence broken only by an occasional scolding of her youngest brother. She had probably not seen many foreigners before, much less in her own home, but not once did she betray any curiosity about who I was or what I was doing there or how I knew Arabic. She might have simply not cared, but I prefer to think that this girl of about 17 suppressed her interest out of a sense of propriety. This is the general feeling I got on the streets, where, while everyone would stare...
...said to be hauling cargo between Moscow and Alma Ata, while nearly 15,000 passengers-admittedly, a small minority of transatlantic travelers-have already flown the Concorde to Europe. They are delighted by its speed, if not its comfort. For another thing, a ban on the Concorde would betray the American tradition of welcoming rugged but fair competition in the marketplace. The staggering development and operating costs of the Concorde may make the plane one of history's landmark commercial disasters, but if Paris and London are willing to keep subsidizing it they are entitled to a chance...
...quite easy. In order to get potential converts to this stage, members must stir up the people brought in to a state of high emotional invovement, usually accomplishing this by establishing one-to-one relationships and putting the new person in a position where he does not want to betray a few-found friend. This high emotional involvement makes the person vulnerable, because it changes his feelings toward reality, Clark claimed...
Your statement that "guilt must be shared by both races" is preposterous. The fact that a few black people worked with the slavers is neither here nor there. While there will always be traitors, it is hardly fair or sensible to insist that the people they betray are guilty by reason of having been mistreated...
While pursuing his career as a director, Peter Bogdanovich has been an assiduous and romantic collector of early Hollywood reminiscences. This interest sets him apart from his fellow film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a market in movie nostalgia that has so far been more apparent than real...