Word: martyrdom
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...world knew that it had, in a sense too deep, too simple for the world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world...
Violence broke out in India anew after Gandhi's death. Fifty were reported killed as-Gandhi admirers exacted a blood price from the Mahasabha extremists. Some dared to hope that Gandhi's injunction to abhor violence might take on added force from his martyrdom...
...Milanese Catholics jammed into the Great Hall to honor St. Ambrose and hear militant words. Cried Monsignor Adelmo Bicchierai, spokesman of Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan: "The time has come to live again the days when the Lombards rose around Alberto di Giussano.* . . . We must be ready for victorious martyrdom...
...surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...
Similar misgivings were expressed by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology. "Such a bill, if enacted, would do only harm," he declared. "It would put a halo of martyrdom around the Communist cause and eventually strengthen...