Word: martyrizing
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...engineer, became a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats of sleeping loyalist soldiers. He failed again and went to prison for nine years. Released, and playing the martyr's role to the hilt, he was elected Senator, but his loyalties remained wholly Red. "If Brazil should fight Russia," he said, "I would form guerrillas and together with my followers I would fight for Russia...
...Into this kind of nightmare world-for it is a nightmare world-there can be no entrance for the forces of righteousness until . . . they are delivered from the fears, the glamour and even the crusading spirit of the rebel against law and convention who claims to be a martyr by persecution...
...Line of Martyrs. His partisans have often called Casement's sentence and execution a "judicial assassination,'' yet there is a dark blot on his martyr's shroud-the Black Diaries, "200 pages of concentrated erotica," found in his lodgings. If authentic, the diaries proved Casement probably the most industrious sodomite since the days of Heliogabalus. According to Casement's supporters, the diaries were forged, possibly by the British, to destroy Casement's image as a patriot-martyr. The diaries were clearly in his handwriting; Casement's defenders contend implausibly that they were...
...Frederick John Kasper found his cause, headed into the Southland to stir the mob. Ironically, Kasper did not get a rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity. His actions make him a double agent. He might as well be working for the other side...
...letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction that the government's policy...