Word: persecutors
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...American Psychiatric Association an explanation of a phenomenon that has long baffled both courts and psychiatrists. Most murderers fall into one of two neat classes: the legally sane, who have an understandable motive such as robbery, and the legally insane, such as the paranoid who kills his imagined persecutor. But now and then there appears a third type -the man who kills without apparent motive, yet appears sane before and after the crime...
Psychiatrist Sargant sees these quick conversions under great emotional stress almost anywhere. He believes that every important conversion recorded in the New Testament (most notably that of Saul of Tarsus, persecutor of Christians, to Paul the Apostle) was of this type. In modern times, thinks Sargant, many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas...
With just this kind of historical detective work, the scholars have moved in on the dramatic cast of characters offered in the Habakknk commentary. The leading members of the cast are the already famed Righteous Teacher, a spiritual leader with special inspiration from God, and his persecutor, the Wicked Priest, a sacrilegious, murdering, despoiling drunkard who comes to a bad end. There are probably subsidiary villains, referred to as the Man of the Lie and the Preacher of the Lie (though it is possible that these are additional epithets for the Wicked Priest). In the background is the House...
Witch-hunting had lost much of its glamour by the end of the eighteenth century, but the University faced its perennial housing problem, so the trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy...
Surrounded by "enemies" bent on "crucifying" him. Crooner Dick Haymes, fighting to escape being bounced back to his native Argentina, finally suggested the name of one of his persecutors. The accused: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. In Haymes's deportation hearing, one of his lawyers insinuated in a question to a witness that Brownell himself had ordered Haymes arrested while the crooner relaxed off guard, during a supposed 60-day truce with the Government. At week's end, another bit of Haymes's past caught up with him. This time the persecutor was his former wife...