Word: treasons
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). When eminent public servants begin performing acts of treason, sophisticated Spies John Steed and Emma Peel are sent in to tie a knot in the mastermind-bending plot...
...Bond Honored, British Playwright John Osborne's tumid adaptation of an atrocious horror show by 17th century Spaniard Lope de Vega, has a hero who commits rape, murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem at the Old Vic and held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics...
...Freddy. Declaring that the new constitution was nothing less than an act of secession from Uganda, he ordered Obote and his regime to leave Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
...could never find "the thread that ravels finally/into the interior of a truth." Even in himself he could not find himself. Before Sartre and Heidegger, he described the fallacy of memory, the treason of time, the existential anguish of alienation...
...Others. Bonhoeffer believed that it was morally right to assassinate Hitler, and had a share in planning an abortive 1943 plot against the Führer's life. That year, however, he was arrested; in 1945 he was tried for treason and hanged by the SS at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, a few days before the area was liberated by Allied troops. At his death...