Word: traitor
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Most people probably know that Pound was a traitor during the war, a collaborator with the Fascisti in Italy. But few probably know how he arrived at that point. It started with his departure from Paris in the fall of 1924--he was fed up, some of his friends say, with helping other writers with their works. By that time he had already edited Eliot's "The Waste Land" into shape and he had exerted a lot of energy getting enough money for Joyce to finish Ulysses in Zurich. Countless others relied on his abilities as a writer and editor...
...Secretary of the Treasury. It was also a time when word arrived of a mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty, when the first chrysanthemum reached France from China, when Captain John Paul Jones was accused (falsely) of an attempted rape of a ten-year-old girl in Russia, and when Traitor Benedict Arnold was floundering in his attempt to run an import-export business in Canada. Our cover subject for the week? The inevitable, overwhelming choice: George Washington, who gave the new Republic the highest gift in his power, character...
...theatre as a whole, we the predominantly white audience begin to perceive the actors as a unified group manipulating us with savage skill. And then there is the reality beyond the theatre, whose messenger is Newport News. During the evening's performance, somewhere on "the outside," a black traitor has been executed and a new crusader chosen to take his place. The entire play has been nothing but an intricate diversion that distracts our attention while blacks organize our overthrow elsewhere...
...with former Agent Philip Agee, who quit the agency to write an exposé of the CIA (see BOOKS). After the screening, a lively debate broke out between those who felt that some of Agee's charges were well founded and those who denounced him as a contemptible traitor...
...businessmen. The brother recalls: "One day a Sino-Khmer merchant came to our house with a package for him. It was full of money. Later at dinner, he said that 'if you take money from the capitalists, you have to work for them. Then you're a traitor to the people because the capitalists are the enemies of the people.' After that, businessmen would complain, 'No matter how we approach your brother, we get nowhere. He's hopeless. He'll never get anywhere in this government...