Word: martyrdom
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Duplicate Martyrdom. What caused that view to change was a feeling, even in the government, that Palach's death had to be taken as a serious political protest. While President Ludvik Svoboda pleaded against the repetition of "this horrible deed," he declared sympathetically on television that, "as a soldier, I am able to assess the self-denial and the personal courage of Jan Palach." Student and some union leaders quickly moved to channel the nation's horror and sympathy for Palach into full-scale political protest. First in Prague and then in other cities, they staged memorial marches...
...Rolfe playing Pope, McCowen basks deliciously in all the power and glory: swishing his stunning robes with epicene pleasure, outwitting a cluster of conniving cardinals or charming his opponents into loyalty and love, reforming the Church singlehanded in a series of staggering coups, then meeting his martyrdom, complete with saintly forgiveness of the murderer. McCowen does all this with a command of technique that is outstanding. His ability to project emotional confusion - notably in two dramatic confession scenes -while maintaining crystalline intelligibility, is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style. Beyond that, he manages to evoke...
Preaching love and life as a habit, grooving on martyrdom, intensity without discretion, without propriety...telling her to believe everything, telling...
Martyrs Without Martyrdom. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Japanese-American parents, Hayakawa has studied in Canada and the U.S. The most famous of his books, Language in Action, which he published in 1941, not only became a bestseller but is still a standard college text. A man of many and varied talents, Hayakawa for five years wrote a column in Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department...
...movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly man, is a much-photographed adjunct of the image, and when he sees his wife retreating into fantasy, he dramatically kills himself at the spot commemorating the martyrdom of St. Paul. Why? To shock Annabel back to herself? Or to play a hideous joke? Frederick leaves four ludicrous letters-all accusing Annabel of scandalous behavior-in a place where they will be found by his old friend Billy, who happens to be a veteran blackmailer...