Word: martyrdom
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...have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their excellence and meaning. In doing this for music, you will be doing as much for yourself. You can grow, as once you so richly promised, to the full stature of a missionary and prophet. You may even suffer a little toward martyrdom, which never hurt a true artist. You will be remembered as a brave and generous leader, not as a tired repeater of empty ritualistic formulae...
...Wolff for years. In fact, the grapevine has been humming of a prospective suit for months. Yet Mr. Wolff has it all figured out that he is a poor helpless fly entangled in a spider's web, and that his decision to sue is an act of martyrdom. Actually, none of his points in support of this view holds water...
Whatever Thomas Ryan's failings, he does not lack for ambition. In ten stories, prologue and epilogue, he tries to nail Man to the map in terms of his leading forms of bondage and self-martyrdom. There are quite a few writers more maturely qualified for such a task but disregard of that fact is one of Ryan's naive virtues, which he shares with most first and some second-rate writers. So in spite of its inadequacies, his rawboned, cornfed volume carries much to be respected in itself...
Between the fury of Earl Browder's cohorts claiming "martyrdom," and the sounds of rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
...hoax, as the French charged, a fake accident staged and executed by Hitler's own henchmen to bring the Führer close to martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes in plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...