Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Whatever the reasons for the kidnap plot, the Czechs went easy on Kazan -possibly because Czechoslovakia is seeking trade advantages from the U.S. and an expansion of tourism, which could hardly be encouraged by the martyrdom of a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to a comparatively light eight years in prison; he could have got as much as 20. At week's end KazanKomarek's sentence was suspended, and, having satisfied the Czechs' mysterious purpose, he was released and put aboard a flight to New York...
...proposals fell far short of the Sikh goals, and cynics among the Sant's followers noted that he had seemed overly eager to escape martyrdom. The whole deal, they suggested, was prearranged. But whether it was or not, Indira was clearly the winner. Lately she has been showing a tendency to buckle under public protest involving everything from cow slaughter to government control of gold merchants. This time she showed that she can also stand firm-at least until after next month's elections...
...Tools of Martyrdom. Until 1881, only two such sets were known, one ensconced in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the other in London's Goldsmiths Hall. Currently, there are five...
...cost around $30,000; another, inferior set is expected to fetch $15,000 at New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries later this month. The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints. Each Apostle bears his symbol, or the tools of his martyrdom: St. John holds a cup symbolic of the poisoned wine he was ordered to drink; St. Bartholomew is shown with a knife to signify his being flayed alive; St. Simon carries the saw that sundered him in Persia...