Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...martyrdom is the purest spiritual achievement in Eliot's play. He transcends even the temptation of becoming a martyr so that he may be worshipped. Corum has destroyed Eliot's clear position. He has decided to return the four tempters to stage as the knights who murder the archbishop, and the tempter who offered Becket immortality through martyrdom asks, after the death, whether Becket did not will himself to be killed. For Eliot this was a rhetorical question, answered in the cool detachment of Becket's final lines, and by the contrast between Becket and the terrified village women...
...there was nothing but joy unconfined over the move. There was no debate on the subject; it had been specifically banned to shush any boat-rockers. There were cheers and applause when the vote was announced (142 for, three opposed, four abstentions), and again when roly-poly, auburn-bearded Archbishop Nikodim, head of the 16-man Russian delegation, mounted the stage for his formal admission...
...meeting of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington, the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy accepted a study report from the conference's Department of Social Action, which attacked chauvinistic extremists who "divert attention from critical Communist gains in Asia, Africa and Latin America." The report was presented by Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee and written by Father John F. Cronin, the N.C.W.C.'s famed expert on Communist infiltration of labor unions. Without mentioning the Birchers by name, it made clear that the warning was aimed at groups "which emphasize the danger of domestic subversion, and give little...
...Pope John XXIII. The bishop's visit, arranged through the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, was the first meeting of a U.S. Episcopal chief prelate and a Pope (though it followed by almost a year an ice-breaking Anglican audience, that with Geoffrey Fisher, then Archbishop of Canterbury...
...stopover had even more significance in the context of Bishop Lichtenberger's journey. This week's New Delhi assembly, a milestone in the swelling movement for Christian unity, will be attended by such leading churchmen as Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, German Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, and Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox Church-plus five observers from the Vatican...