Word: martyrizing
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...Worry." What Augstein seems most determined to do is prove that his continued imprisonment is more injurious to Adenauer than to Augstein. He seems confident that the government will never be able to present a winning case against him. And he now sees himself as something of a martyr. "I owed this service to the nation," he said in a recent column, and added, with strained modesty: "I should like to ask all of you who concern yourselves about us: Do not worry. No one of us is a Captain Dreyfus and no one, unfortunately, an Emile Zola...
...distinction still dominate the Broadway scene. The New York Drama Critics Circle's best-foreign-play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
There are several holdovers of quality. The New York Drama Critics Circle best foreign play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of group-think toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
Novelist Powers is anything but anticlerical, but in his sly, fond way he can twit the clerics sharply. He has a fine eye for the kind of Catholic foible that makes other Catholics wince. The founder of the Clementine order, for instance, was the (imaginary) martyr St. Clement, who was pressed to death between millstones. Naturally, given the Catholic fondness for sanguinary names, the order's publishing house is called the Millstone Press. The dear, droll priest has cluttered up magazines (Father Juniper) and movie houses (Bing and Barry) for years. The work of J. F. Powers...
...this would be an "ugly choice." In fact, our current policy is doing very well; it makes it clear to Latin American countries just what the consequences of Communism are, and they are coming around to our point of view faster this way than if we made a stupid martyr out of Castro...