Word: martyrizing
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...roader, has appealed to the "reasonable" element among segregationists and conservatives and has left Barnett try to out-scream Swan for the rabid-racist support. Williams has the distinct advantage of having lost his House seniority by supporting Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. This made a minor martyr of him. In a Southern state like Mississippi, where personal attacks rather than issues dominate campaigns, promises differ in tone and emphasis and not in content. Williams, who has amply proved his conservative credentials by giving up his Party power for Goldwater, does not need to shout the old slogans...
Shadow Plays. In his struggle to maintain that fusion, he very nearly realized the wish that he once expressed as a little boy-to grow up to be "a martyr." He was accepted at the Vienna Conservatory at 15, later supported himself by conducting, and at 37 became director of the Vienna Opera. He swept out has-been singers and dusty traditions, and turned out the polished, provocative productions that made him one of Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles...
...strike and were joined by eight more the next day. They pledged to eat nothing until the administration agreed to let every senior have her own apartment. Reporters and friends who talked with the girls during the course of the strike remarked that they seemed "driven by some freakish, martyr-like vision of their cause. They talk as if they're a besieged people." In retrospect, it seems obvious that the girls' wrath far outran their reason, but during those five days, they were real celebrities in the Quad. Refusing at first even to chew gum or take vitamin capsules...
...want to be a martyr. I'll place a martyrdom within your reach: to be an apostle and not call yourself an apostle, to be a missionary-with a mission-and not call yourself a missionary, to be a man of God and to seem a man of the world: to pass unnoticed...
Milton Richman enlarged on the theme for United Press International: "Cassius Clay finally made it. Today he is a martyr. Some martyr!... He promptly tosses names around like Jesus, Columbus, and Abraham Lincoln, the implication naturally being that some day his name may be bracketed with theirs. He has a long way to go before that. A long...