Word: martyrdom
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Parkinson's Law. At first, the world intrudes through a copy of TIME, which has drifted up the Congo and which carries a cover story on the great architect.* Thus Querry, seeking nothing but anonymity, is doomed to the martyrdom of the fame he has repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry...
...Last of the Just is essentially two books. It is the story of the martyrdom and metamorphosis of Ernie Levy, and it is also the history of the persecution of the Jews as a people since the 12th Century. The story is based on the Hebrew tradition of the Lamed-Vov, the Just man. According to this legend, "the world reposes upon thirty-six Just Men, indistinguishable from simple mortals; often they are unaware of their situation. But if just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn... For the Lamed...
...starkly modern Roman Catholic chapel designed by Communist Architect Niemeyer. Rationed to two beers and a teaspoon of whisky a day, Guignard finished the brightly colored childlike paintings in 17 days while a record player blared Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The critics were ecstatic. Diario Carioca called the paintings too good for the chapel...
With an air of martyrdom, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., determined, soft-spoken Negro leader in the South's struggle for civil rights, submitted to handcuffing in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur last week and was led off to the Reidsville state prison to serve a four-month sentence...
...Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart. A panoramic, quasi-epic novel of Jewish suffering, from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, in which the descriptions of martyrdom are eloquent and touching, and answers to the question "What is a Jew?" are largely existential...