Word: martyrdom
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...Martyrdom...
...into the Los Angeles courtroom where the concerns of the state must be met. On his forehead was his symbol of apartness: an X, in his own dried blood, cut there because "I have X-ed myself from your world." He went on, in a statement of indifference and martyrdom: "I stand with my X, with my love, with my God and by myself. My faith in me is stronger than all your armies, governments, gas chambers ... I know what I have done and your courtroom is man's game. Love is my judge...
...first part of the story deals ostensibly with the process that stirs Mark into some kind of militant action, the second half leads to a martyrdom which jolts Daria into a more responsible state of consciousness. Presumably she exits the film with enough commitment to end her complicity with a destructive society, an involvement symbolized by her attachment to the, businessman, Rod Taylor. Again, her basic reflexes are sound. Antonioni suggesting that she is capable of reaching a decision to resist forces' Antonioni condemns. In a brief meeting with some beautiful deranged children, corrupt as the angelic demons that...
...rebels, though decrying their treatment, exulted in their martyrdom. Rennie Davis offered a challenge to Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Foran. Said Davis: "When I get out I'm going to move right next door to Mr. Foran and I'm going to turn his kids into Viet Cong." Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita proclaimed: "If there wasn't a conspiracy before, there, sure as hell is one now." As a practical matter, however, the radical movement has lost-at least for the time being-some of its shrewdest and most daring leaders. Thus the violent antiwar left...
...religious antagonism. "I am increasingly convinced that the canonization would be harmful to the ecumenical cause in England and that it would encourage the emotions which militate against it," he said. He finds a "siege mentality" among English Roman Catholics that "is bound up psychologically with a kind of martyrdom complex deeply rooted in history. Ought we, on both sides, not be getting away from...