Word: martyrizing
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...Martyr's Red. Girolamo Savonarola was a reformer with imposing forensic powers, and the bottomless, concentrated piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
...unctuous Uncle Joe, brought back memories of the famous mural he painted for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center in 1933. Diego entered the Communist martyrology when the Rockefeller management paid him for the mural but destroyed it because it glorified Lenin and Communism. Last week Rivera was making martyr sounds again: the Mexican government had commissioned his latest mural (on movable panels) as part of a big exhibit of Mexican art to be shown in Paris this May. After a good, hard look at The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace, the government announced that it would exhibit...
There were, in fact, only two places where enough action took place on the screen to rouse the drowsing audience: the burning of Rome scene and the one where the lions are supposed to dine on prime ribs of martyr. The former is indeed an impressive spectacle, but in the latter, the lions have so little actual contact with the Christian martyrs that the whole thing might well have been taken on a Friday...
...divorced twice (two children by the first marriage, one by the second), he lives with a pair of servants in a 15-room Beverly Hills house. He does all the shopping. Afternoons, he works on the two dozen fruit trees that stand on his back lawn; he is a martyr to what Robert Benchley described as dendrophilism, which might be described as tree-tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars...