Word: martyrdom
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Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...
...morosely slapping my baby fat, mourning my acne, and tearfully considering my martyrdom to high school while searching the pages of your fine magazine for a subject for my next current events report in world affairs class, when I happened to find an article in Music called "St. Joan of the Jukebox" [March 15]. It looked interesting, so I read it. Being 16, I find that I am pretty well "over the hill" from the point of view of your article; nevertheless, it touched a few soft spots in my memory. I speak from years of experience, you might...
...considering the article for my current events report, except that I don't think it would go over very well with my teacher, and therefore would only add to the pain of my high school martyrdom...
...cannot demand Pasternak's martyrdom from all artists, nor perhaps should we want to. Dr. Zhivago will remain an immortal book in the West, but it is inconceivable that it will be read in Russia in the near future. Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg might be toadies, and we might often find them despicable. Yet their dissent, no matter how veiled, will reach the Russian people. And their relentless pressure for new freedoms, no matter how hesitant, can produce an occasional "thaw," can help create a climate that will allow the publication of such works...
...Salinger's quiet ones are in revolt against nothing but the "phoniness'" in human life itself, she points out. In fact, the family has become an enclave of private and very special spiritual excellence -specifically the nonphony Glass family, of which Seymour the elder, who has undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool." And it is on the troubling question of Seymour's suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit...