Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consult a psychiatrist to determine what the compulsion is all about. On the other hand, he wakes up every morning in terror, convinced that his writing is "just a trick, and people will get on to it." Television, says he, "is a form not of masochism but of martyrdom. I believe if you survive this, you come out a fantastic human being...
...asked for the overthrow of the Diem government. But a new type of Buddhist leader is emerging-young, well-educated, tough, and impatient with the older men's relative restraint. As passions mount and the police crack down harder, Buddhists are being pushed into a dangerous attitude of martyrdom. "We don't want a police state," says a Buddhist priest. "We do not want terror or discrimination or state control. We are loyal Vietnamese, but the government treats us like Communists, We are willing to sacrifice ourselves and to die to bring freedom to all the people...
...happened, Medgar Evers, a World War II Army veteran, graduate of Mississippi's Alcorn A. & M. College, varsity football player and onetime insurance agent, was quite a man. And he had premonitions of martyrdom. "I'm not afraid of dying," he recently said. "It might do some good." As the N.A.A.C.P.'s only fulltime worker in Mississippi, he was a constant target for threats, but he pursued his course nevertheless. He directed a big civil rights rally in Jackson recently that brought in such big-name Negroes as Lena Horne. Only a few weeks before his death...
...expansion means. It is the role of the creative critic to show the ambiguity of perfection in every culture. However, they also have to fight a continuous struggle in the one-dimensional culture. Their fight is not that of the critic in former cultures where it could lead to martyrdom; but it is the fight against being taken into the culture as another cultural good. Then the Socratic gaddy is imprisoned though not in order to be killed. He is fed even with food for his criticism but he is not free to give a judgment from the vertical dimension...
Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...