Word: treasonable
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...accepted President Kennedy's offer to be Ambassador to the United Nations, Stevenson had indicated that he intended to stay with the job as long as he was wanted. "If I accept this appointment," he told a friend, "I am committed to support the President this side of treason or madness. There is no way for a man as prominent as I am to quietly step down...
...failure of the spring season at the Loeb, which reportedly set record lows on ticket sales, results from the choice of plays. Buechner's Danton's Death proved far too rhetorical, and a play with a passive protagonist must inevitably drag. James A. Culpepper's Phyllis Anderson Award-winning Treason at West Point combined inept dialogue and inadequate characterization. It was barely competent. Anthony Graham-White's adaptation of Johnson, Marston, and Chapman's Eastward Ho! had more potential--it suffered most from a lack of good comic actors. But the play is hardly an old standby...
Stampp is particularly acute and concise in his sketches of Lincoln and Johnson. These architects of Reconstruction faced three broad problems: the formation of loyal state governments in the South, the treatment of those who had voluntarily supported the Confederate government (who were therefore subject to trial for treason), and the future of the Negro. Both Presidents were deeply concerned with the first two issues, but they approached the Negro problem with distrust and dismay, not with imagination...
...without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched in protest in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. Five Cabinet officers resigned, forcing Adenauer to fire Strauss...
...situation-which existed in the U.S. as well as Europe -was described in 1927 by a French intellectual named Julien Benda in a book titled The Treason of the Intellectuals. The "treason" did not consist of disloyalty to their nations, as Benda saw it, but in the fact that intellectuals had abandoned detachment for political passion, and stopped thinking independently. While many intellectuals saw themselves as lonely rebels, heresy became a group affair, and protest turned into a community sing. Alternately repelled and fascinated by violence, dreaming both of power and of justice, intellectuals overwhelmingly (if not unanimously) embraced Marxism...