Word: martyrize
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...life, but it grated on my conscience," he says. "I'm tired of people telling me they don't give a goddam about the law and that they're just not going to sell or rent to 'niggers.' I'm not a martyr or a crusader, but this made me ashamed. The colored people are here to stay, so we might as well get used...
...philosophy, or sex, or confusion demands a clearer characterization than the movie offers. The philosophic explanation presents Nana as fantastically sensitive, young Nietzschean who gains fulfillment in a self-styled artistic ("Everything's beautiful") rebellion. Like the Joan of Arc she cries over in a movie, Nana dies a martyr's death...
...enacted by reasonable process rather than by emotional reaction. The death of President Kennedy has now and will for many decades have incalculable "meaning." He did not die for and because of civil rights legislation--rather, he died because an insane man shot him. President Kennedy is not a martyr to civil rights or any other of the legislation for which he fought. If the President's ideas rather than the personal tragedy should become the focal point of our emotion, then we would be the same kind of emotional being that his assassin was. It is possible...
...murder. "Thank God it wasn't a Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...warmest admirers turned out to be enthusiasts of the radical right wing, who seemed determined to set her up as a martyr and symbol-like General Edwin Walker. The day before the coup, Millionaire Patrick Frawley, president of Eversharp, Inc., and staunch supporter of Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, gave a private luncheon for her to meet some of the state's leading conservatives. After that, members of the superconservative California Young Republicans offered to pay for her $90-a-day suite at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. But Robert Gaston, president...