Word: martyrdom
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...bright mark on contemporary French music; of a heart attack; in Paris. In later years Poulenc's gay, airy theatrical music gave way to a more highly sustained and emotional style in such formidable pieces as The Dialogues of the Carmelites, a melodic opera based on the 1789 martyrdom of 16 nuns...
...advantage of a criminal record. This victory was in part earned by Iannello's many services to his constituents--services such as fixing his neighbor's parking tickets, providing them with apartments in public housing projects, and getting summer jobs with the State for their sons. Yet without his martyrdom on Deer Isle, his triumph would not be complete...
More practically, the martyrdom of Ross Barnett will not add to the total enlightenment of the South...
...cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth of his intent; his message is reminiscent of lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When...
Walking Shoes. Even martyrdom is something that King cannot always depend on. Fortnight ago, he chose to accept a 45-day jail sentence-rather than pay a $178 fine-for his role in an earlier Albany protest march. But hardly was he clapped behind bars when a man described by police as a "well-dressed Negro" paid the fine anyway; his benefactor was not identified, but the talk around Albany was that the whites themselves had paid the fine to keep King from becoming a more powerful rallying point. Some of Albany's Negroes somehow expected that King...