Word: treasonable
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...pressure has crippled the white Rhodesian moderate. Those few citizens who still bother to openly criticize the government are practically powerless. Most others have given up trying or have begun to feel that while their country is being threatened by hostile forces from without, it would be tantamount to treason to voice an opinion against the government. Whereas just this summer I heard a Rhodesian lady say, "If I was an African, I would be right in the very front line fighting," now there is nearly complete white solidarity behind the government...
...Britain intended to grant their death wish, but as painlessly for the rest of Rhodesia as possible. Noting scornfully that their declaration had "borrowed, for the purpose of small and frightened men, words of one of the historic documents of human freedom," he charged Smith and his cronies with treason, a crime that is punishable by death. He broke off all relations with the regime, kicked it out of the Commonwealth, and appealed to police, civil servants and soldiers to disobey their "illegal government...
...will soon publish Pound's major work, Cantos, in French, says the silence indicates "a profound sense of remorse"-a remorse that has been growing deeper since 1958, when Pound was released from a Washington mental institution, where he was confined for twelve years after being indicted for treason because of his pro-Fascist World War II broadcasts from Italy. Now living in Venice, the Faustian-bearded poet was spending a few days in Paris to celebrate his 80th birthday, and one of the carefully guarded things he did say was that he wants to return...
...evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon is guilty of multifarious fornications, industrial sharp practices, attempted treason, and coveting his own son's young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex, and the old man has a Mom problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks...
...Young Dems' resolution condemned "any efforts to silence unpopular views or demonstrations through threat, intimidation... or cries of treason...