Word: martyrdom
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...Faces. Since World War II, France's top-ranking Reds have alternated between Approach No. 1 (the hard face of a tightly knit corps of barricade-building professionals, adept at sabotage and martyrdom) and Approach No. 2 (the bland face of the Popular Front, designed to win the pennies, votes and tears of the masses). In 1947 French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, who has been undergoing "medical treatment" in the Soviet Union for the past 17 months, plumped for Approach No. 2. His faithful followers exalted the dove, and sheltered behind such intellectual "fronts" as Physicist Joliot-Curie...
...tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there; this audacious move so startled his lieutenants that not one of them in the National Assembly has risen to invoke parliamentary immunity for Duclos. The comrades were confused: they hardly knew whether to proclaim Duclos' martyrdom or denounce him for stupidity...
...things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations in his own case, finally arouses the American people to their danger, and affirming anew against a background of indifference, lethargy and contempt the great truths of Christianity, is entitled, because of his white martyrdom of the spirit as a witness for God and country, to the degree of Doctor of Laws...
...some of his predecessors. Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross (TIME, Dec. 17), said A.B.C., resembles a Crucifixion by the 81-year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring's 19th century favorite, Pharaoh's Horses. A.B.C. captioned its story "Three Coincidences," and let its readers judge for themselves...
...saying publicly that the Air Force had to have first priority in funds and materiel if it was really to be the first line of defense. This was a deliberate personal decision on his part: he felt that nothing in air power history, from Billy Mitchell's public martyrdom to Tooey Spaatz's pleas to Congress, had achieved its purpose. Van vowed to keep his arguments "in channels" and in the secret councils of the Joint Chiefs. This did not prevent him from making broad public hints of the problem uppermost in his mind-how to break...