Word: martyrize
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...just folks like me." But Protestants, like Catholics, do sometimes distinguish between the everyday and the heroic. Despite the criticism of his authoritarian personality and his patronizing attitude toward Africans that arose even before his death, Albert Schweitzer is still commonly considered a Protestant saint. So is the Lutheran martyr to the Nazis, Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African Missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints...
...that faint possibility for his fellow inmates that McMurphy ultimately acts without understanding what he is doing. The revolt he leads can only put him under the lobotomizer's knife. Instead, to keep hope alive, his friend, an Indian named Chief Bromden, kills him: if McMurphy is a martyr, his deeds become the stuff of life-sustaining mythology for his wardmates...
...time, he served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers. In the 1950's, however, inspired by what he called the "heroic example" of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Welch resigned his position and began research that resulted in his book on John Birch, "an unknown martyr." In December 1958, he founded The John Birch Society, dedicating it to perpetuate those ideals and virtues that Birch exemplified--"patriotism, faith-inspiring morality, the spiritual sense of values, and individual freedom and responsibility on which our western civilization has been built." Welch has concluded that these ideals are threatened...
Huntington also said Rockefeller's announcement might be designed to quell conservative Republican criticism about the dismissal of Schlesinger and to prevent Schlesinger from the becoming the right's "martyr" to the cause of military preparedness...
Attorney Donald G. Collester Jr., representing Morris County, also rejects Armstrong's case. Citing the same court precedent, Collester concludes that in New Jersey "it is clear no one has the right, constitutional or otherwise, to be a martyr or make his child a martyr." This view, too, has its ethical supporters. Says Arthur Dycks, professor of ethics at Harvard Divinity and Medical Schools: "One should err on the side of saving this woman's life. Doctors should keep people alive. Otherwise, hospitals become Frankenstein monsters...