Word: martyrdom
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Historically, it was curious to find mention of martyrdom retained in the ritual creating a cardinal. The church's list of martyrs contains scores of bishops, but only one cardinal.* When the office evolved (probably in the 5th Century), the cardinals were in charge of important churches in and around Rome. Yet while there was evil in the world, there would be danger, even at the center of Christendom. The cardinals were reminded that they as well as those who went among the infidel were expected to be faithful unto death...
Finally, what if the Government proves its case and the defendants are convicted? Why give them a boost towards undeserved martyrdom? The Communists are all too ready to shout "Cossack" as it is. There is no need for the New York Police Department to be their straight...
...this book is Author Davenport's way of reversing the normal scale of values. No matter how largely they may figure, art, literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor...
...fashionable Street of the Converts, however, Rome's modistes, having no urge toward martyrdom, prudently removed all bare midriff garments from their display windows. "I have two-piece suits for anybody who asks for them," said matronly Teresa Spizzichino. "They're made so as to hold any bosom tightly and cover both navel and-er-lower hind parts." Just the same, she admitted, the one-piece variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with...
...violence. Communism, he decided, was the enemy of Italy, and Togliatti was the head and heart of Italian Communism. "I could not bear the thought that he, an Italian, attended meetings of the Cominform," explained Pallante later. Being obsessed, he did not realize that Communism would exploit the martyrdom of Togliatti...