Word: traitor
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...himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram, the convenient death of the man whom Joyce...
Both acts, in Greece and in Illinois, have been condemned--not because the one put six "heroes" to death or the other sets an "arch-traitor" free, but because they represent in themselves a perversion of justice. Perhaps the Greek execution is the lesser...
...their own benefit, and that it was in this respect that the college man falls down. In war time he was the first to come to the front, but in peace he fails to perform his single duty of casting his vote and he should regard himself as a traitor...
...Boston election and the year before only 30 percent voted for members of the municipal council. Everyone can perform this service and no man or woman who has the right to vote and fails to vote through his own fault, can regard himself as other than a traitor to democracy...
...accept into its colleges. There must be time for growth and advancement; but meanwhile it does no harm to learn our meanwhile it does no harm to learn our faults. After all, it is the old story of revolution being rebellion until it has succeeded, and the hero a traitor until he has conquered...