Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the trial began in Nairobi, it seemed inevitable that it would provide Mboya with the kind of martyrdom that is so invaluable in nationalist politics. The first day, Bwana Tom (as his idolatrous followers call him) arrived ostentatiously wearing a Ghana toga of kente cloth. Wherever he went, his followers trailed him crying the Ghana chant: "FreeDOM! Free-DOM!" His new People's Convention Party, modeled after Nkrumah's party, organized an effective boycott of buses, beer and tobacco, staged such wild demonstrations that the police had to call on Mboya himself to stop them...
Indulgence v. Martyrdom. Not all churchmen were of the archbishop's mind. "There is no more baneful or contagious an influence in the world," said the Lord Bishop of Rochester, "than that which emanates from homosexual practice. There are such things as sodomy clubs. There was one in Oxford between the wars and another in Cambridge, which shamelessly sported a tie, [but] I cannot believe with the most reverend Primate that the best way of getting rid of these clubs is to indulge them...
Puffing on the coals of martyrdom, some Southern editors indulged in such overblown headlines as the seven-column banner in the Danville...
...point continually arises that Kollwitz is, after all, an "Expressionist," a wielder of emotions who prefers impulsive, intuitive reactions to intellectualized or classic ones. No answer speaks more eloquently than the suffering "expressionist" figures of Rouault, whose silent anguish mirrors not only torment and martyrdom but that essential dignity of art defined by Malraux as "the voice of silence." The difference, again, is aesthetic, not literary. Kollwitz cries out against war; Rouault affirms the artistry war destroys. One is advocacy and the other...
Painter by Peeping. Hundreds of people walked through the palatial rooms daily, admiring the works of the once-scorned Renaissance master. In paintings such as Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (opposite), they could see Bassano's dazzling treatment of light and color. Now there was appreciation for his gentle landscapes -the first by an Italian to resemble the actual country, instead of arranged scenery -and the dogs, cats, cows, sheep, goats, asses, rabbits and doves that populated so many of his canvases. Italian critics were warm. "A maestro," exclaimed Il Popolo, "who recapitulated a whole golden age of painting...