Word: traitorousness
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Though Wieland is still considered an "irreverent traitor" by oldtimers, he is venerated by all who work for him. Says Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang Erda in Rheingold: "I would do anything for him. Why, I even took a curtain call wearing that black leather costume that opened up to display two enormous leather breasts with threeinch nipples. And I didn't even blush...
Gunpoint Cosigner. Guzmán admits that Villa's habits were brutal: he shot one man for pushing his horse, ordered another executed because "I saw in his glance that he waa a traitor," once lined up 60 enemy prisoners in rows of three "to save ammunition by killing three with one shot." To show his disgust for the dandified "chocolate drinkers" who, he feared, were taking over the revolution, he ordered a prisoner shot in front of his luncheon guests. Villa's only interest, according to Guzman, was to preserve the revolution for the poor-with whom...
...delegates received this heresy in stunned silence. Said one: "If anyone else had said what Nasser said today, Arabs would have branded him a traitor to the cause. But Nasser says it, and we accept it." Not everyone agreed. The Baathist regime in Syria persisted in calling for mass action against Israel. At a Damascus rally, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez sneered at Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate...
...Whitus case has cost Jones $8,000 of his own money, and he is threatened by anonymous phone callers ("You goddam nigger-loving shyster. We'll get you"). A local weekly recently ran a story about him under the headline: is SCION OF ALBANY FAMILY A TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS...
...focus of Eye. At the climax, a young wife and mother (Carol Rossen) dies. Before that, her unhappy teacher-husband (Philip Bruns), a Greenwich Village would-be painter, squabbles with her, with his unappetizing children, and with his equally unappetizing in-laws who treat him as an ethnic traitor for not being Jewish. He also covets his best friend's recently divorced wife...