Word: martyrizing
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...fairly even balance of opinion on its reporters' panel. "We never load the panel against the man being interviewed," explains Martha Rountree, "because people are always for the underdog. Why, with a loaded panel I could take the worst man in the country and make him a martyr...
...arguments on both sides almost as if they were all beside the point. After only two hours and 21 minutes in deliberation last week, the jurors found Gehr not guilty. The real criminal: New York's divorce laws. Said one indignant juror: "Mrs. Andrea Gehr was a martyr to this antiquated law which places evidence-gathering in the hands of professional snoopers, and in this case led to a dreadful tragedy...
Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
Asked his present ideological beliefs, he said, humbly, that he was "a student of Marxism." As he was led off to jail with the look of the martyr on his face, none of the comrades was around to note...
...class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears, fallacies and betrayals...