Word: subverter
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...visible story is slow and simple. A lesbian named Ester, her younger sister Anna, and Anna's young son Johan are passing by train through a country whose inhabitants speak a foreign tongue, devised by Bergman to subvert communication. When Ester falls ill, they stop at a hotel. An incestuous relationship between the women has ended in bitterness, and Anna-after a few days of taunting her sister with a series of heterosexual escapades-takes the boy and goes away, leaving her to die alone...
...Orthodoxy's greatest complaint against Rome is the existence of the so-called Uniat churches-some 12 million Catholics who accept the Pope as the Vicar of Christ but observe Eastern forms of worship. Orthodox church leaders unanimously regard these Eastern Catholics as spiritual fifth-columnists, seeking to subvert their people from the true and ancient faith...
...does not like is to invite others to defy those which they do not like, leading to a breakdown of all justice and order. He knows, too, that every fellow man is entitled to be regarded with decency and treated with dignity. Any educated citizen who seeks to subvert the law, to suppress freedom, or to subject other human beings to acts that are less than human, degrades his heritage, ignores his learning and betrays his obligation. Certain other societies may respect the rule of force-we respect the rule of law . . . No one can deny the complexity...
...managed news still a hot one, he began his talk with the greeting "Fellow managing editors." In mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret Soviet code name for the operation...
...Plaine des Jarres, headquarters of both the neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao armies, the Reds have begun a campaign to infiltrate and subvert the forces of their onetime neutralist allies. Farther north, thousands of Red Chinese workers have crossed into Laos to build roads linking China's Yunnan province with Communist-held areas of Laos itself. Armed with new Red Chinese automatic weapons, the Pathet Lao is attacking neutralist villages on the supply lines between the Plaine des Jarres and Communist North Viet Nam to the east. Many neutralists have openly defected to the Reds, adding to Westerners...