Word: martyrdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action taken against him, Almirante is convinced, will backfire badly. If convicted, he said with a smile, he would accept his fate; he evidently envisions a useful kind of martyrdom. During his imprisonment, he proclaimed, "Our battle, our movement, would become very much stronger...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart's fictional history of Jewish martyrdom, ended poignantly with a lament for the destruction of such communities as the Hasidic shtetls of eastern Europe -- where social rules were joyously, religiously infused with a belief that beneath the moral law lay some ineffable grace. That novel was a sad and bitter tribute to Messianic faith, and its tone was mourning. A Woman Named Solitude is dedicated to fighters, like those people who revolted in the Warsaw ghetto; fighters whose ghosts, we are told, still rise up before the eyes of travelers amidst the ruins...
...within a campaign; he is satisfied to turn a writer's trick with tradition. Sheed's disappointing conclusion to Casey's career, tossed off in one or two sentences, is another refusal to invigorate his story, to give it a climax or use it to explore the role of martyrdom in politics...
...such an act, the government kept hands off, and while demonstrators all around were hauled off to jail, Sartre went untouched. Much frustrated over a period of months, his comments and conduct became progressively more outrageous, until arrest was unavoidable, and a self-satisfied Sartre was dragged off to martyrdom...
...Spider's Stratagem, for example, has a serene mystery to it -- perhaps emanating from the film's roots in a Borges story -- that will not allow deep penetration into the viewers' lives. The film explores psychological questions, but does so mainly to raise broader questions about heroism and martyrdom and the impact of truth on history...