Word: martyrizing
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...global public eye fixated transformed Saro-Wiwa into one of the most prominent environmental and civil rights martyrs of the decade: he was looked upon as a moral giant who fought and lost to an abusive, undemocratic regime and the greedy, unaccountable spectre of one of the world's largest oil companies. His final statement to those about to hang him reflected the dignity and disgust that one would expect from a modern day martyr: "Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land…I have devoted… my very life...
This biography subscribes to the familiar narrative line that Bobby--the runt of the litter, Mother Rose's pet and much ignored by his powerful father, the unpromising younger brother of Hero-Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with...
...state, there might just be another ghost ready to rise up and haunt Bush all summer. While he's at the house, George W. should ask his dad about another political ghoul: Willie Horton. But the younger Bush's version would be an innocent man - and a deliciously handy martyr for Al Gore...
...journalist's errors and the utopian's projections. I have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy...
...murderer Hill to John Brown, the abolitionist who died trying to start a war against slavery a few years prior to the Civil War. While Nathanson said of people like Hill, "I consign them to the lunatic fringe," his comparisons of Hill to Brown makes Hill seem like a martyr for a cause that will soon draw the whole country into battle. In fact, Hill would see this comparison as a compliment. He proclaims from his website, "Now is the time to defend the unborn in the same way you'd defend slaves about to be murdered!" Nathanson is clearly...