Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widow, or impose the death penalty but not carry it out? Peking sources say that powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping fears that executing Jiang Qing would not only deeply offend those Chinese who still cherish the memory of Mao but would also turn her into a martyr. Deng, however, has apparently not convinced members of the Politburo, as well as other party leaders who suffered at Jiang's hands during the Cultural Revolution, that executing her would do more harm than good. "There are different opinions," admits one well-placed party official. "Some believe that if Jiang Qing...
...hero, a deceased Greek revolutionary, is as unpromising in death as he was thwarted in life. The owlish collector of excesses is soon faced with an embarrassment of riches-and sometimes just with an embarrassment. For connoisseurs of melodrama there is the first meeting of narrator and martyr: "You were to have many faces, many names ... you were a Vietcong girl... You told me about a god with a yellow beard whom they call Jesus Christ and he has wings and flies over the clouds and dies like a Vietcong partisan ... then your name was Padre Tito de Alencar Lima...
...Strouse refuses to make the error of presenting Alice as a martyr to frustrated Victorian womanhood. She frequently suggests parallels between Alice's problems and those of other nineteenth century women, and her book offers insight into the psychosomatic ilnesses common to Victorian spinsters. Nevertheless, she never presents Alice as merely a passive victim of masculine oppression. Alice herself, as Strouse argues, recognized her own responsibility for her failures, and one of the few emotions absent from her writings is indulgent self-pity. Toward the end of her life, looking back over her years of illness, she ruefully berated herself...
Immediately, he is lionized by a parade of advocates who relish the idea of a martyr's bearing witness to their pet creeds. A seedy intellectual, played with querulous pungency by John Heffernan, wants Senya to die for the valor of the intelligentsia, while a writer urges him to expire for the glory of art, and a faded beauty argues for the ideal of romantic love...
...open the door to conciliation before being swamped in a wave of revolution. Prior to last week's incident. Marcos--who had allowed Aquino out of the country for a triple bypass heart operation, primarily because he could not afford to let Aquino die in prison and become a martyr--responded cautiously, trying to keep his clasp on power while waiting out the results of the presidential election. The president put out feelers, realizing a compromise with Aquino provided at least a chance to salvage something from among the ruins...