Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually the conflicting problems of his story proved too much for Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...
...order will cry out at this arbitrary treatment of Mr. Strachey, for they maintain that when they know the critic's reasoning they are better able to refute the accusations. As Villard, a prominent liberal and recent lecturer at Harvard, said "repression was never yet a remedy for anything." Martyrdom and emotionalism, it has been historically proved time and time again, always will be the subvertor's most effective weapons...
...their intense meanness the Christian peoples help our independence?when kneeling, they crouch before power; when they are pitiless towards the weak; when merciless in dealing with faults, and lenient to crimes; when they refuse to recognize the contradictions of freedom; when they are patient to the degree of martyrdom in bearing with the violence of an audacious despotism...
This could only mean that Chancellor Schuschnigg thought of holding an election, something Chancellor Dollfuss was careful not to do, since he feared the Nazis might win. Conceivably the Dollfuss martyrdom may have made it possible for a government of appeasement to win a coalition victory in Austria. Asked flatly, "Are you thinking of holding an election or a plebiscite?" Chancellor Schuschnigg neatly replied, "One might ponder for a long time over what name could be given to what I am thinking...
...neither his job nor his wife are awaiting him. But his bulldog tenacity makes him fight through the horrors of scrubbing floors and carrying trunks with one purpose: that of giving his son the things which he has missed in life. Either self-restraint or a more blatant heroic martyrdom will aid him in accomplishing his purpose. He chooses the former methods and thus avoids outbursts of Victorian sweetness which would destroy the strength of the picture...