Word: martyrizing
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Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine...
CHRIST-MONGERING, however, is not really fair to Hough, whose book is more about a patient guardian than a martyr. Gifford's assumption of responsibility for Kimberly Ann Regan, the victim, seems all too Christian, but it makes sense for a man whose equanimity has depended, since a decision 34 years earlier to limit his scope to a Cape Cod town, on the preservation of a profound order within that community. Gifford's dedication to the community is so abiding that he feels called upon to write its history upon his retirement. The obliteration of Kimberly Ann Regan within...
...mistake then, maybe, to violate Hough's softspoken-ness by attributing to him the perception of the detective-martyr, the guardian, as the Christian who reveals society. Maybe it is better to take Gifford on his own humble terms, as a gentle and kind man with an interesting story. But Hough has dropped too many hints here, or made too many mistakes, by endowing this man with such astounding parcels of innocence and responsibility, as to make such a conclusion inevitable...
...shrug off criticism: for a central banker, he once said, "the first quality is to be cold-blooded." But he obviously tired of the role. On the wall behind his desk hangs a portrait of St. Sebastian tied to a stake and riddled with arrows; Carli often compared the martyr's fate to his own, adding that the only difference was "that he's bound and I'm not." A few months ago, he told an interviewer that "one of the biggest ills in Italy is the immobility of top people in the world of economics...
...doubly exhausting. Indeed, he didn't show up at a gig in Lenox last weekend, and reports have it that Ochs is highly difficult to get along with nowadays. Maybe it's worrying about the Dylan comparison (he makes it--nobody else does)--the political Ochs is a grand martyr. Anyway, I always found his songs too indulgent and War-is-not-healthy-for-children-and-other-things-ish to make effective leftist propaganda, and his tunes get redundant. The big exception is "Small Circle of Friends." At Passim's tonight and tomorrow...