Word: martyrdom
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...response was quick and virulent. Warsaw's Zycie Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year...
...stridently liberal organization like Americans for Democratic Action, two kinds of pleasure are possible. It could keep on losing bitter battles, and then its members could feel the pleasure of martyrdom. Or it could win-maybe even see a real A.D.A. type elected President-and savor the taste of power...
...deep appeal lies in a rare faculty for sensing-and transmitting-the doubts and yearnings of a generation that has lost its illusions and is beginning to find its voice. Evtushenko is this generation's flag-bearer, a daring young man, but not to the point of martyrdom...
Painting away in jail, Siqueiros seemed to be enjoying the martyrdom of it all. Asked about his chances for a presidential pardon, he took another dig at President López Mateos: "I suppose the President will have to ask the U.S. before he acts...
Simply denouncing the policies of the far right is not likely to temper its fanaticism, for it thrives on martyrdom-and is only too happy to add its critics to its list of subversives. If the members of the far right are to be wooed back into normal channels of political expression, politicians must patiently face the task of convincing them that at the present time the real danger to the nation lies from without, and that the way to fight that danger is to encourage unity at home and unflinching policies abroad that reflect the best interests...