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...gonna be any damn martyr in Viet Nam. I know that much...
...leading American psychedelic guru-and martyr-is Timothy Leary, 45, who began to experiment with the drugs in 1960 when he was a psychologist working at Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. Harvard fired him and an associate when their project seemed to get out of hand. Leary then moved his experiments to the vicinity of Acapulco but was expelled by the Mexican government. Early this year a Texas judge sentenced him tentatively to 30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine for transporting half an ounce of marijuana and failing...
...life, Leonard Deadwyler, 25, was an unemployed mechanic, an anonymous face among the 450,000 Negroes who live in the abrasive ghetto of Watts. In death, he was made a martyr, his name a provocation to riot. Speeding his pregnant wife to a hospital one night early last month, Deadwyler was stopped by police, then killed when Officer Jerold Bova's gun went off. Los Angeles police called the shooting an accident, but few Watts Negroes believed them. Sporadic rioting, the second outbreak since last August's uprising, struck the area...
...Aiglon, the only son of Napoleon and Empress Marie Louise, was the principal martyr of the Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried...
...Religion. Some Christians, of course, have long held that Nietzsche was not just a voice crying in the wilderness. Even before Nietzsche, SÖren Kierkegaard warned that "the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with." During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: "We are proceeding toward a time of no religion...