Word: martyrize
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Becket's acceptance of martyrdom is the purest spiritual achievement in Eliot's play. He transcends even the temptation of becoming a martyr so that he may be worshipped. Corum has destroyed Eliot's clear position. He has decided to return the four tempters to stage as the knights who murder the archbishop, and the tempter who offered Becket immortality through martyrdom asks, after the death, whether Becket did not will himself to be killed. For Eliot this was a rhetorical question, answered in the cool detachment of Becket's final lines, and by the contrast between Becket...
...Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own," wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. The subject in A Man for All Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose his life...
When the Congo's martyr-demagogue. Patrice Lumumba, died last winter deep inside Katanga, territory of his bitter political foes, the Katangese Minister of the Interior said: "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply, 'Prove it.' " For six months, a U.N. Commission of Investigation* has been trying to prove it. Its report last week, based largely on hearsay, hunches and gossip, did not furnish proof, but added considerable evidence to show that Lumumba was indeed murdered in cold blood-and probably with the connivance of Moise Tshombe's own Katanga government...
...original Soviet kid hero of this species was Pavlik Morozov, 12, who has earned immortality in the Soviet Encyclopedia for betraying his father in 1930 during the forced collectivization drive. Two years later, the lad became a Communist martyr when, the story goes, he was assassinated by a band of landowners...
...this is not a comfortable course to follow at the precise moment when the elected representatives of the far right seem consciously to be seeking a martyr. Weary of delicacy and complexity in foreign affairs, they are, like Senator Goldwater, willing to assert that the cold war can be brought to a quick and satisfactory conclusion if only it is fought by men whose appearance is tougher and whose speech is harsher than Kennedy's, or Stevenson's, or Arthur Dean's. The reaction to General MacArthur's recall has shown how powerful a weapon against liberal treatment of diplomatic...