Word: martyrdom
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...want to be a martyr. I'll place a martyrdom within your reach: to be an apostle and not call yourself an apostle, to be a missionary-with a mission-and not call yourself a missionary, to be a man of God and to seem a man of the world: to pass unnoticed...
Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York World Journal Tribune: "He (Clay) desires martyrdom. But what religion has thugs to do its missionary work with kicks? There were Black Muslims in the mob of assassins that killed Malcolm X. The karate is an expression of their piety in street rumbles. It is Clay's cop-out that he is a minister of this furious sect...
...courses taken at Harvard Summer School ("We just don't know how to evaluate the programs at other schools," Dean Monro explains) ;so if there is a reason for a Harvard student to take summer courses, he will be taking them here. Accelerating, making up deficiencies, enduring the martyrdom of 34 hours a week of Chem 20--these are some things that keep Harvard students at Harvard Summer School. And for the others, whose own colleges may or may not have summer schools but undoubtedly accept Harvard credits, Harvard is--well, Harvard...
...people alter power rather than that power alters people. It leads Brecht into his customary fallacy of assuming that power is good in the hands of workers and scientists and bad in the hands of statesmen, clerics and generals. As a historical determinist, Brecht curiously calls for a needless martyrdom. With or without Galileo's recantation, an age of science was inevitable...
...SEASONS. Playwright Robert Bolt's literate theater work on the martyrdom of Sir Thomas More makes every bit as good a movie, with Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas...