Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head, and for his martyrdom he is recorded in the calendar of saints...
...Testament nor the New specifically forbids it, as does the Koran, which calls suicide "a much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a stop to a growing tendency of extremist Christians to seek instant sainthood via self-martyrdom. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century in Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body was dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroads, with a stake driven through...
Politics of Expiation. Yet there it is. In part, it reflects the persistence of the legend surrounding J.F.K.; time seems to enhance rather than diminish the glow of his martyrdom. To the almost 200 Kennedy books, two more were added in recent weeks by exPress Secretary Pierre Salinger and a former J.F.K. buddy, Paul Fay; a "definitive" account of the assassination by William Manchester is scheduled for publication early next year...
...Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...
...because he was the victor of New Orleans. Teddy Roosevelt may have changed the course of human events less significantly than Woodrow Wilson, who led the U.S. into World War I. But Teddy's robust vigor captured the American imagination, while there lingered about Wilson, even in his martyrdom, a distressing air of the austere schoolmaster...