Word: martyrize
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...Order: "In May 1920, following the murder of a paymaster in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Brockton police picked up two Italians in an automobile filled with the innocent and febrile literature of anarchistic propoganda." This passage is factually incorrect, said Montgomery, and designed to make Sacco and Vanzetti appear the martyr-victims of a purge murder by the "Old Order...
...movie's concentration on the tragedy of it all, its insistence on showing Julien to be a maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...
...from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult of the family, including the blood feud. The major demerit was that the Hellenes soon "took to worshipping their city-states as gods, instead of treating them simply as public utilities." Inevitably, this produced the first Hellenic martyr, Socrates, who compelled Athens "to choose between respecting his conscience and taking his life...
...still stung by the discovery that an Arab street mob could jeer his name, Nasser in Damascus ordered up what his press unblinkingly called "the largest Arab anti-Communist demonstration ever seen." The crowd had been whipped up by Friday sermons in the mosques. It was given a martyr's pageant of its own, similar to the one in Baghdad: a lugubrious cortege for a wounded Iraqi captain who had fled Mosul when the revolt failed, and died in a Damascus hospital. Nasser crowed that "the banners of Arab nationalism" would fly one day over the land now ruled...
...After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would-be martyr: "Now, Guy Fawkes, lead on to the dungeons . . . You've got an 'ole suite of rooms to yourself . . . And I bet you ain't satisfied . . . That's the Irish, all over...