Word: martyrize
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...failings, many of which he discussed in his act, Lenny had a persecution complex ? because he was so often persecuted! ? and a martyr fixation. He identified with one of the few historical figures he unconditionally revered: Jesus. The Christ analogy can be pushed too far (Jesus was not a junkie, though he was a Jew), but there's no question that Lenny was relentlessly and unfairly hounded by the judiciary system. Record producer Phil Spector, who championed the comedian in his last year, claimed that Lenny "died from an overdose of police." Think that's an exaggeration? Well, Martin Garbus...
...slight acknowledgement of the hassle of getting up at 5:30 a.m. in order to be at work at eight. Yet other than that, the response is one of “tough luck.” But as much as I like taking on the role of martyr, the fact of the matter is that I enjoy my commute to and from work as much as I enjoy the job itself.Whereas a native Bostonian might look on an hour-long trip to Providence as a trek, I see nothing unusual about the fact that my family regularly jumps...
...chanted, and a few of them, armed with clubs and tools picked up from nearby construction sites, attacked the building until the crowd was calmed by Muslim clerics. The Lebanese Army watched passively. By contrast, the turnout was tiny later that night at a peaceful candle light vigil in Martyr's Square. Anger is clearly the dominant response in Beirut to the Qana killings...
...dismembered British Empire, Christians for their often misinterpreted savior, and a bored girlfriend for the idyllic first date. But that old cliché about controlling the past only to control the present requires a radical shift. Episodes like the “re-burial” of revolutionary martyr Imre Nagy in Hungary make it so. Nagy, who was denounced by the pro-Soviet communist regime for decades, was re-buried by nationalist Hungarians in 1989 as a hero. Controlling the present in order to rewrite the past is the rule of the day; it?...
...beach with dry feet and dreams of an ocean spray. Like Lenny Bruce - whom we'll get to in a few weeks, on the 40th anniversary of his death - Ginzburg was a pioneer in, and a victim of, the art of the permissable. He was not a martyr,, exactly; he didn't die for our sins. But he did time so that we could legally enjoy those sins of the flesh. And he helped us realize that they weren't sinful after...