Word: martyrizing
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While the Socialists were passing out literature accusing the U.N. of permitting Lumumba to be "murdered . . . in the name of peace," several freshmen distributed a statement declaring: "that the Young Socialist Alliance makes this man (Lumumba) a martyr is comic indeed, but more than that, it is tragic...
...served. Present at the obsequies in Istanbul's Sisli mosque was a menacingly large crowd of 1,500 mourners, many genuinely bereaved but many others expressly come to show defiance of General Cemal Gursel's ruling military junta. To do so, they chose to consider Kirdar a martyr...
...journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr, might have accepted it, as well as Lander's conclusion: "I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart...
Continuing the pattern, the Associated Press reported fears that "illiterate millions in the Congo may regard Lumumba as a martyr." One wonders where Western apprehensions were hidden during the years in which Belgian rule virtually forbade education in the Congo...
Trumbo is one of the hottest potatoes ever baked in Hollywood. He is hated by many. He is also adulated by some as a political martyr. As moods and attitudes have shifted around him, the man who wrote such memorable films as Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo has been shuttled in and out of the money, in and out of anonymity, in and out of jail...