Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commission. So wild had the speculation about Kennedy's assassination become that a Black Muslim newspaper even reported that the President, dying of cancer and desiring martyrdom, had ordered his own slaying. And it was to set such nonsense to rest that President Johnson, on Nov. 29, established the Warren Commission...
...education, medicare and other federal programs with high price tags. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Daily News counseled Congress and the nation not to be stampeded into precipitate action. "Few Americans (and, we imagine, still fewer Congressmen) will feel that even the late President's martyrdom imposes on them the outright duty of acclaiming or voting for what a few days ago they denounced and worked against...
Overshadowed by the High Renaissance, the 15th century artists of the Lowlands were called "Flemish primitives." But the modern eye has adjusted to their light, and appreciates the full sophistication of their art. This quality is clearly visible in The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, a long-hidden work by an unknown Flemish master which went on view last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (see opposite page). Preserved for many years in the seldom-used Paris house of a French banker, the yard-high triptych first reappeared in public at a 1962 auction. A Manhattan art syndicate...
Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
...superior in Rome for clearance, a restriction since lifted; Father John Courtney Murray of the U.S. was advised not to write any more on his special field of study, church-state relations. "In the Catholic Church of the 20th century," a U.S. priest dryly explains, "the grace of martyrdom has been given to the intellectual...