Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richness of painting art, all the invention of painters, and all the knowledge of painting of the past." In the center panel of the triptych (see cut) a Greek warrior, representing Europe torn between East and West, stands hesitant. To his right, in an ascending crescent, are a traitor, a seer, and a standoffish sort of god. To his left, the battle rages, a lost one, because "battles are always lost...
...severe conflicts and cause actual mental illness after their return to the U.S. In one case, an Army sergeant who was too confused to answer many questions by U.S. interrogators became ill because he feared that people in his home town would reject him as a traitor...
...Communist boss as Niko sometimes had to concern himself with the disintegration of the movement back in Greece. Niko, wily as ever, got someone else to do the dirty work. First, there was Nicholas Ploumbides, a lifelong Communist. When Ploumbides was captured and shot, Niko denounced him as "a traitor" to the Communist cause. Then there was Nicholas Beloyannis, an old comrade-in-arms who was also captured and shot (some of the boys began to wonder whether Beloyannis had been honored with the mission because he had flirted too openly with Roula). In 1953, Niko sent Harilaos Florakis...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...
Though Peale worked himself to the point of exhaustion, served on countless political committees, worried about his growing family, he rose enthusiastically to important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis...