Word: martyrdom
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...Government had not yet decided what to do with the remains. Residents of Dover feared that unidentified or unclaimed bodies might be buried near their small town (pop. 28,500) in massive numbers and become a macabre shrine of sorts. Predicted Dover Mayor Charles A. Legates: "You could expect martyrdom, hordes of people making an annual pilgrimage on the anniversary of Jonestown. We just couldn't handle that...
...might merely be a brief hiatus before a new round of violence aimed at driving the Shah from his throne. The next crucial test will come during the Islamic month of Muharram. The Shi'ite observance of this month culminates on Dec. 11, with the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husain, grandson of Muhammad. It is a time when all Shi'ites mourn for their dead, and emotions often reach a feverish pitch...
Wojtyla's election poses embarrassing difficulties for the party. The government discouraged a visit from Pope Paul VI for the church's millennial celebration in 1966, but it can hardly discourage a trip home by a native son. Next spring Poland celebrates the 900th anniversary of the martyrdom of a national spiritual hero, St. Stanislaw of Cracow. Polish bishops last week formally asked the new Pope to attend. If the regime tries to keep him away, the volatile Poles could take to the streets in protest. If the new Pope visits, they will surely take to the streets...
...judge, and some journalistic defenders immediately got nervous. "Farber ought to throw in his hand ... [There is] a ring around the collar on his white robes of virtue. It won't wash," wrote Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick. "The dollar sign has risen to taint [Farber's] martyrdom," wrote Charles B. Seib, ombudsman of the Washington Post-the paper whose Watergate reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, have made more money from investigative reporting converted into books than any other journalists in history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD ran the headline...
...less inexplicable, more seemingly affected by the thought of sexual violation or even by the threat of her brother's execution. Isabella is not necessarily selfishly chaste; especially in the setting of this production, Marre might have been directed to make evident that it is a different sort of martyrdom to consent to rape than to whipping. Marre does not need to treat her brother's condemnation as something simply exasperating. And if she is being icy and holier-than-thou--well, snootiness does not constitute the sin of pride...