Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Somebody could write a fabulous play about Benedict Arnold. James A. Culpepper hasn't. Treason at West Point never gets beyond exposition and tactics. The characters rarely come alive; some of them never even come into focus. The cast does a fine job with what they have, but the show's a bore...
...generals are being given commands--and losing them--Arnold is persuaded by his wife that Washington thinks him a "crippled fool." She suggests he go over to the British. Ten thousand pounds are offered. He accepts. But we never see whether it's avarice or anger that provokes his treason. And, even more inexcusable, Culpepper does nothing whatsoever with the scene in which Arnold decides...
Novelists can tickle their readers with ambiguities, but a dramatists should at least indicate to his players how to behave. Director Robert Chapman and the Treason company have had to decide for themselves...
...benefit performance of month's Eastward Ho, and the HDC to mount a special Treason Sunday night, when the Loeb is dark. Apparently the word gotten around...