Word: martyrdom
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...children. It does not, certainly, add anything other than a touch of color to the very sincere and serious discussion of the undergraduates, who believe that "Life is real, life is earnest" and mean to start here and now on the thorny path which leads not, perhaps, to martyrdom, but possibly to a much more desirable...
...Their martyrdom has increased beyond endurance through the acts of the Separatist rabble, whose doings are a mockery to the right of the self-determination of peoples...
Shaw then saw fit to explain significances. He composed a ponderous epilogue bringing the characters together in a dream which drifted down the centuries. They settled the merits of martyrdom and all but settled the play. Possibly Shaw preferred to have his audience leave the theatre with wrinkled brow rather than glistening eye. Possibly he deliberately stepped on his climax because he is Shaw and defies the rules...
...told her to do something. Stirred by the strange blind loyalty of ignorance, she did it. When the day came for her to die on a blazing woodpile she did not understand. God had not explained to her the historical values of martyrdom...
...City whose conviction for contempt of court was upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...