Word: martyrize
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...capture and summary execution last October by Bolivian soldiers, Cuban Guerrilla Ernesto (Che) Guevara became an instant martyr of the New Left. Fidel Castro's former second-in-command was the victim of his own botched insurgency, in which he failed to follow his own precepts for guerrilla warfare. Yet, in the seven months since his death, the Che legend has given rise to a cult of almost religious hero worship among radical intellectuals, workers and students across much of the Western world...
...Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with students abroad than at home. The far-out radicals idolize not the old leaders of Eastern Europe but such revolutionaries as Ho Chi Minh, Regis Debray and, above all, Che Guevara, around whom grows the martyr's myth...
Mask for Tensions. A few commentators eloquently separated the man from the martyr. In Newsday, Frank Lynn recalled "two terrifying hours" in Philadelphia, Miss., site of the slaying of the three civil rights workers, when King led 200 marchers through the streets. Cursed, clubbed, spat on by vicious whites unrestrained by police, King "refused to bow to the passion of the moment" and continued to march without faltering or fighting back...
...food served at the university cafeteria, students began throwing insults and then rocks at the police who had been called to the scene. Suddenly, the police started swinging their clubs and shooting. In the melee that followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week 16 special memorial Masses for Lima were held around the city. At the biggest service, saber-swinging horse guards rode right up onto the steps of Candalaria Church...
...crier or a whiner," Comedian Lenny Bruce said after a New York Criminal Court convicted him on an obscenity charge in November 1964. "I respect the law, and it will eventually vindicate me." Although Bruce became a minor martyr and hero to some people, few believed that he would eventually beat the rap. Last week he did-18 months after he had been found dead in Hollywood of a probable overdose of drugs...