Word: traitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last and heaviest burden in the destiny of Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 years to be chief of the French state, was condemned as a traitor at 89. Today, in his fortress cell at Ile d'Yeu, he waits...
...Traitor. Lively spy melodrama combining good old-fashioned hokum with this morning's headlines (TIME, April...
...Oppressed Redskins. For more than an hour, Russia's bland, hulking Delegate Yakov A. Malik tried to keep the inquiry off the agenda. The case of the "Traitor Mindszenty," he argued, was of concern to Hungary only; the U.S. attempt to bring it before the Assembly was merely a move by the "ruling circles [of America] to boss other people around in their own homes." Moreover, cried Malik, the U.S. was trying to cover up its own sins of oppression, the trials of "political [Communist] leaders," the lynching of Negroes and the "pitiful plight" of the American Indians...
Once it really starts moving, The Traitor is a tense piece of theater, paced and sharpened in Jed Harris' best Broadway manner. It is a vivid spy melodrama in which everything seems a little more ominous for being so much of the moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing...
...timely subject matter adds interest rather than importance to the play. The Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument...