Word: martyrdoms
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...effective if he is able to be himself. All our experience shows that one can reach across cultural boundaries most successfully if he is standing on the solid ground of self-knowledge and self-respect. The man who stands on the shaky and uncertain ground of self-rejection and martyrdom, the man who is not a fish and yet is trying desperately not to be a fowl, has no footing from which to reach across any boundaries...
Unable to constrain the chanting mob of students, M.I.T. campus police finally called the M.D.C. police. The students greeted the arrival of the M.D.C. with cries of "tear gas," but the police refused to give in to the students' demand for martyrdom...
Eliot divides his characters into two categories: those who are saints and those who are not. Only Celia Coplestone is canonized and she suffers martyrdom at the hands of the natives of Kakanji, in an unintentially Waughbegone fashion. For the unsainted remainder, Harcourt-Reilly declares that "the best of a bad job is all any of us can make...
...sculptor struggles to discover the proper angle for a tensely muscular leg, later carved in marble for the famous figure Night in the Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Titian is represented by a study of legs done in thick black chalk a decade before the resulting painting, Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, was hung in the church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes. And in a drawing measuring...
...chorus of Straw Hatters and meat packers drowns out her last words, and she is hypocritically canonized for her martyrdom. Although heavily loaded with nickelodeon sentimentality, St. Joan of the Stockyards is intriguing in the contrast of Shavian optimism and Brechtian pessimism...