Word: martyrizing
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...took his campaign into the South for the crucial primaries in Alabama, Georgia and Florida on March 13, Jackson occasionally struck a martyr's pose. The fact is, however, that as America's first major black presidential candidate, he has sometimes benefited from a troubling lack of press and public scrutiny...
...fired." He almost was last fall, but Administration campaign strategists fear that sacking Feldstein, who long ago announced plans to return to Harvard in September, would be politically more hazardous than keeping him on a while longer. The President has said that he does not want to make a "martyr" of the economist. Feldstein may be pushing his luck, though. Says one White House aide: "Sometimes it seems as if he's testing us to see just how far he can go. We don't know if he wants to be fired or not. Sometimes it seems like...
...imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop, the popular former Prune Minister who has been locally regarded as a martyr ever since he was executed during last October's traumatic coup. While his former deputy and usurper, Bernard Coard, still languishes in jail awaiting trial, T shirts depicting Bishop are selling for $15 apiece in a small second-floor room now known as the Maurice Bishop Memorial Center...
Despite the prosecution's insistence that the trial was simply about a long-forgotten murder, the case had a deeper significance. Some supporters viewed Ginny Foat as a martyr, an example of a woman who had overcome the degradation of domestic violence only to be prosecuted for her political prominence. Other feminist leaders, including some officials of NOW, seemed embarrassed by her checkered past and shied away from supporting her. Foat said, "They looked at me as something that might dirty the corporate image." But no California nightmare is without its elements of the American dream: Foat now plans...
White-gloved guards goose-stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed...