Word: duped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article on narcotics in the Spring issue of Public Interest, Dr. Norman Zinberg, a Harvard psychiatrist, writes of Anslinger: "Throughout his career, he did his best to forbid public discussion of the issues involved by denouncing anyone who did not agree with his views as a potential criminal or dupe of criminals.... Whenever any group, even those as conservative as the New York Academy of Medicine or the American Bar Association, questioned Anslinger's policy--in itself a rare event--Anslinger answered by offering to disclose the high percentage of physicians and other public figures who were themselves 'hooked...
...hatreds run deep. Makarios, now President of Cyprus, considers Grivas a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power on the island. Grivas in turn claims that Makarios is vacillating, dishonest, and a dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help...
...just on the strength of his Goldfinger portrayal. Though his international following dates only from that role, the 52-year-old Frobe has some 80 film credits, five acting awards, and an infinite range-from the frightening psychopath in It Happened in Broad Daylight to the goatish dupe in Banana Peel to, most recently, the slapstick Kraut in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
Needing a dupe to carry out a delicate mission in Prague, Morley hires an unpublished writer (Dirk Bogarde). "I'd be a lot happier if he'd been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love...
This is what Duerrenmatt wants. He has given up on the idea of teaching his audience directly through the action; he wants to give them the chance to learn. "Drama can dupe the spectator into exposing himself to reality, but cannot compel him to withstand it or even to master it," he wrote in his notes to this play...