Word: martyrizing
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...Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints. For the cardinal, who had distributed 800 statuettes of St. Philomena to Dover's Catholics, it was an unexpected blow...
...week, the obvious dangers of overt U.S. participation in the fight against Castro were clearly laid down by two Latin affairs experts, Assistant Editor Raymond D. Higgins of the Hispanic American Report and Associate Professor Martin B. Travis of Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would be compared to that of the U.S.S.R. in Hungary. Democratic Presidents in Latin America like [Adolfo] López Mateos of Mexico or Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela would be forced to adopt an extreme position in order to prevent revolution in their...
...example, Einaudi expressed concern that Castro would be murdered and thereby become a martyr for the procommunist cause...
...pressures toward conformity, on being unloved and unwanted. But don't blame it on me, the very center around which the whole universe revolves." Topsy-turvily, compassion is extended to the evildoer rather than to his victims. Thus the recent U.S. scene has offered the spectacle of "The Martyr as Manly Rapist" (Caryl Chessman), "The Martyr as High-Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules...
While the movement shuns physical violence, protestations often involve participants in minor infractions. The speakers noted that positive measures taken in such cases often create a desirable martyr impression...