In the west we generally venerate those authors who stand up against acts of silencing by the authorities.
Whatever the truth of the matter may be, his writings exerted an inestimable influence for more than 1,000 years by virtue of the somewhat surreptitious quasi-canonical authority of their author, whose books were venerated, as has been said, "almost like the Bible itself".
According to one author, "Escrivá is... venerated by millions".
Still, as Mr. Roth's narrator recalls, Bucky is venerated by the neighborhood boys as "the most exemplary and revered authority we knew, a young man of convictions, easygoing, kind, fair-minded, thoughtful, stable, gentle, vigorous, muscular — a comrade and leader both".
This project, started in 2004, was frozen due to public outcry, most especially from Muslim religious authorities and the Israeli Islamic movement, as well as Orthodox Jews, about disturbing family graves, and the graves of venerated figures from Arab history and religion going back to Saladin and Muhammad.
Unknowingly, we venerated them.
He venerated good reporting.
Nowadays, personality is venerated.
He is hated and venerated.
Today, he is universally venerated.
