Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playhouse on the Wharf. The Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...
Bland Explanation. To win a vote of confidence, U Nu needed the help of the 45 votes held by the National United Front, a collection of Communist and other left-wing parties. Two days before Parliament met, U Nu made his deal with the left-wingers by ordering high-treason charges dropped against two Communist Deputies who had been in jail a year awaiting trial. His bland explanation: both men had said they were sorry they had done wrong and had promised not to commit treason again. With U Nu's victory assured, the tension of the past weeks...
...trap," and to warn his top henchmen to be careful about returning to Argentina. But back home Perón's lawyer filed the first case testing just how broadly the law will be interpreted in court. The attorney asked a federal court to drop a charge of treason from the list of indictments pending against Perón. Even if the lawyer wins this case, he will have little chance of knocking down all other charges, including one for statutory rape, growing out of Perón's two-year affair with Nelly Rivas, beginning when Nelly...
...pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies...
Accompanying a motion to dismiss treason charges against Ezra Pound had come an impassioned plea from a fellow poet. Wrote Robert Frost: "I feel authorized to speak very specially for my friends, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. None of us can bear the disgrace of letting Ezra Pound come to an end where...