Word: martyre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...
Author de Cespedes attacks neither motherhood nor the status of the housewife; she only asks that Mamma or Mom stand on her dignity and true worth, and above all, that she reject the martyr pose. The Secret expresses poignantly the mood of wanting "to start living afresh" and the discovery that it is too late. One day Valeria has an impulse to telephone her boss from home and say, "Let's go out." But " 'I'm mad.' I murmured, shaking my head. 'Quite mad,' I repeated, forming his number in the air, without dialing...
...even smaller share in any crop: they were the barely fed and scarcely tolerated unemployed of England. What Benjamin Disraeli called England's "two nations" had in the '30s bred a third - the untouchables of 20th century industrialism. Orwell, born a Brahmin, lived among them like a martyr...
...Crush the Despot!" Fortnight ago the pro-Nasser editor of the newspaper Telegraph (a man believed also to be a disciplined Communist) was assassinated outside his Beirut home. Who killed him? Nobody knew. Some suspected that he might have been murdered by the Communists themselves to create a martyr. The pro-Nasser National Front immediately called a general strike against the regime. "Crush the despot and save Lebanon!" cried chunky ex-Premier Saeb Salam...
...Dujardin, a member of the French underground, is in jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed the massacre of a whole French village called Montpelle (which calls to mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead (he is now with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero...