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Julius Caesar's Commentaries, the primer of classical scholarship, said Highet, is a case in point. "I happen to think that Caesar is a crook and a traitor.* The reason I think so is that he trained a personal army in order to assassinate democracy in his own country. His book is full of evasions and alterations of facts. It's really a propaganda document, but most students are given the impression that Caesar was merely setting down the facts...
...Here died at 95 the hero of Verdun, a convicted traitor of World...
...Traitor. In Manhattan, Sandy Pitofsky, Director General of the Bachelor Clubs of America, took out a marriage license...
...them as belonging to one Germain Lantier, a Frenchman who had deserted to the Germans in World War II, had risen to be a lieutenant in the Gestapo. Arrested at war's end, Lantier had escaped from a military hospital, been condemned to death in absentia as a traitor...
Miller occasionally faces sharp criticism from serious musicians. When the pressure of the pop business made him pass up a chance to play with Cellist Pablo Casals at the Prades Festival, Miller's friend, Violinist Alexander Schneider rebuked him, called him a traitor to good music. Miller took it with a mild objection: "Why, I'm playing oboe better now than ever before...