Word: martyrdom
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...Pyramids insured the endurance of the dead pharaoh's name; the skyscrapers, tunnels and bridges of today are dedicated to the service of the people. But there are few more revealing ironies than that it is still the name of the man who pays that is perpetuated; only martyrdom to the work can make eligible the name of its creator...
CONFLICT-Olive Higgins Prouty -Houghton Mifflin (2). The life of Sheilah Miller is a conflict between the violent superficial distaste and the deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears...
When Baby Horace Collins Pitkin grew old enough to understand the answers to his questions, he learned the weight of his father's martyrdom. When he grew old enough to read men's books he read Robert E. Speer's A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin,* which told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry...
Next to poets, probably no class of people has been more consistently underfed throughout the ages than musicians. By way of compensation they have claimed the distinction of artistic martyrdom. It may be significant of a changing social order that U. S. musicians last week filed a brief with the Department of Labor for the right to be designated as "laborers in the field of music" rather than "artists...
...extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind the meaning of physical endurance. To this end he subsists solely upon water, coffee and cigarettes, and remains perched in the blue New Jersey sky with a pair of head-phones on his ears...