Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After Iona's husband is executed for treason, having shielded his wife's involvement in the rebellion, Agathon goes to seed. It is then that he starts compulsively laughing at the universe and having visions of the future...
...issues may be a rightist or a centrist on another set (as, for instance, in the conflict over big v. little government) and when the whole content of leftism and rightism shifts drastically from decade to decade? Much of the currency of our discussion (slavery, rebellion, treason) is Confederate money. We are, in short, victims of terminological conservatism...
Accustomed to Mediocrity. Written by Political Journalist Philippe Alexandre, 38, the 400-page book is a candid chronicle of outspoken conversations by and about the two men. "I am an old man, an old man who has seen so much treason and mediocrity around him," De Gaulle is quoted as saying before Pompidou's successful election. "I'm not dead, even if Pompidou wishes I were. You'll see. He won't be elected President. Besides, it would be depressing. If the French people reject me, it certainly won't be to take a Pompidou...
...Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean -sentenced in perpetuity as the result of a petty theft, remorselessly pursued by the forces of the law, redeeming himself by acts of courage and charity-is a French epic hero. Alfred Dreyfus is his counterpart in the real world of politics and treason. Few American readers will feel Gallic tremors of empathy when Papillon sits on Dreyfus' very bench as he plots escape from Devil's Island, or when, in a Hugo-like episode, he risks his life trying to save a warden's tiny daughter fallen among sharks...
...ticket. Later, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond explained: "The police department informed my office that the officer was inexperienced and expressed regret that the incident occurred." Under federal law, while on official business a member of Congress can only be arrested for breach of the peace, felony or treason. Case closed...