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Connecticut's Democratic politicos puzzled over whether they had inherited a has-been or an up-&-coming martyr in Chester Bowles. While Bowles cruised in a 39-ft. yawl off the Atlantic coast with his bittermost memories of Washington and OPA, Connecticut Democrats last week worried over a more specific question: did energetic Chester Bliss Bowles intend to try to be governor of Connecticut or would he go after a seat in the U.S. Senate...
...thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death by butchery, to act as a Roman Catholic priest in England...
...tons of coal, had forced the Government to seize them and thus negotiate with him-and had gotten little or nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...
Promptly Major Hornbostel decided that he would go too. Said he: "I don't consider myself a martyr. I'd be unhappy without her and she'd be unhappy without me, and that's all there...
...Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...