Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Distrust of the papacy still persists strongly in Britain. Hitchhiking aboard the airliner winging Ramsey to Rome were five unwelcome ministers of Baptist and Presbyterian sects, who on arrival doffed their black jackets to expose white tunics with identical slogans: "Archbishop Ramsey -a traitor to Protestant England...
...approval at Fay Wray. The film's funniest scenes, though, are the earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better...
...chose him as the instrument of betrayal in order to fulfill the prophecy of Psalms: "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came in the guise of his Master...
...compulsive blabbertongue who would rather rant than fight. The play is a petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely hapless puppets in the lock-step march of historical determinism...
Although he has simply spoken out against violence and urged acceptance of inevitable change, he has been attacked as a traitor to the white race...