Word: martyrdom
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...passion" group, the second gallery, that devoted to the Dreyfus case, is relieving. The color is livelier, the faces are illuminated with genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus is not burdened with the martyrdom so often found in literature, and the sketches of the principals in the trial have a delightful vivacity. The impression of Zola is of somewhat alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this gallery when he was under different...
...permanently startled look on Architect Wright's face is rightly come by. His Autobiography was a naive exhibition of martyrdom, rage, scarifying tragedy and adolescent yammering. One time he was stabbed eleven times in the back. Soon afterward he was married, had six children, left them and moved in with another man's wife and two children, until August 1914 when a disapproving Negro butler killed the woman and children and four neighbors and burned down the house...
...base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks fervently of a plan to meet the threatened invasion-to surrender parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this is nothing but schoolgirl...
...ensuing breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...from a careful calculation of the expected action of voters and entrenched minority interests, the term has little place in Mr. Baker's vocabulary. The strength of his convictions is such that they must be freely expressed regardless of consequence. And this does not spring from a desire for martyrdom or from a stupid obstinacy, but from the genuine belief which he shared with Wilson that public opinion is not a static condition but that it is a thing alive and growing, capable of response to stimulation and direction of public leaders. Thus the function of men who aspire...