He had taken on a new identity of "Mr Lawrence", and lived a covert double life in Oxford with his mistress and their eventual children.
In a time when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.
His 2006 book on the Rights of Man ends with the claim that "in a time... when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend".
There was great potential in this tale of a thoughtful lawman adapting to the thug life, but "Covert," while entertaining, lacks the nuance to do the story justice.
Like Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," another once-controversial drama set in the then-covert world of homosexual life, "The Killing of Sister George" endures primarily as an amusing (distressing?) bulletin from a more benighted era, when portraying gay men and women onstage in any capacity marked a bold advance.
It was not a covert operation that ended his life prematurely but an operation to remove an abdominal tumour in 1965.
The plaza will undoubtedly look charming and be a lovely addition to London life, but its covert design intention is stark: it's there to prevent terrorist ram-raids.
The personal consequence for Valerie is suspension by the agency, the impossibility of continuing her covert work, professional disgrace, her life threatened and her contacts put in mortal danger.
Colion Noir, an African-American gun-rights activist who serves as the face of the N.R.A.'s black-outreach campaign, also criticized the decision, writing in an online post that Yanez's mistakes cost Castile his life, and that "covert racism is a real thing and is very dangerous".
