Word: martyrizing
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...such masters as Degas or Klimt but with more than 300 of the new photographic reproductions that were spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the order of the day. Thus Albert von Keller's lubricious portrait of a naked woman crucified bears the pious title Martyr, and all those nude beauties frolicking around that white-bearded codger represent Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme. Arthur Wardle's Bacchante cavorts with a whole herd of amorous leopards, and Frederick Stuart Church's Enchantress strolls through...
...African government began seriously to consider releasing him as a "humanitarian" gesture, fearing he might die in prison and thereby touch off an uprising in the black townships. Some official might have remembered the warning of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins...
...soon became obvious that the only person far enough above the political differences to unite the opposition was the martyr's widow. She was also, by no coincidence, the only one who did not seek the role. "I know my limitations," she said three months after the murder, "and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband...
...Shackleton explained to us that Cicero took on Mark Antony because he thought he could win--he didn't do it to be a martyr. But at the end, he decides he prefers death to running away," Segal says...
President: George and his refrigerator Business Card Editor: Joe "I am not a martyr" Kahn Eighth Congressional Editor: Martha "Vote for Bachrach" Bridegam University Hall Editor: Cristina "Yes Joe, I'll write an ed piece" Coletta Friends of the Summer Times Editor: Maia "9 to 5" Harris Hackensack and Berkshires Editor: Jon "Pleeeese write a Confi Picce" Moses Kahn Social Secretary: Shari "I am going swimming" Rudavsky Classical Music Editor: Jim "Whaaaaaat" Schwartz Postal Director: Jim "ten more minutes" Solomon Communication Editor: Bruce "Take this job and..." Kluckhohn Janitor: Brentwood "aka Beej aka BJ" Martin Lunch at Grendels Editor: Dahlia...