Word: archbishop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gether all summer sifting the pretrial claims of 116 plaintiffs. Early this month, the judges recommended a total settlement offer of $3,000,000. (An other $1,000,000 in medical expenses has already been paid by the church and the city.) Approving the formula, Chicago's new archbishop, John...
...returned home with little U.S. backing. Perhaps also influ enced by the success of Pakistan in playing East and West against each other, the Turks soon began smiling at their big northern neighbor. Also Unsettling. The latest events on Cyprus have hardly worked against friendship with Moscow. Last month Archbishop Makarios angered Ankara by abolishing the separate electoral rolls for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, which effectively barred the Turkish community from the seats it had held in the House of Representatives. Turk ish Cypriot Representatives, who have not been attending meetings for fear of their lives, tried to re-enter...
...Thomas Becket. Hum bly born in London's Cheapside, Becket rose high in the world to become Chancellor of England under his fast friend and boon companion, King Henry II. Becket served his king by curbing the power of the lawless barons, and Henry then had him appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in order to curb the power of the clergy. Instead, Becket switched allegiance from King to God. His relevance for moderns is in his martyrdom and its unanswered questions: Where does a man's loyalty lie and, once pledged, does it require even the surrender of life...
...struggled with the problem of Becket. In Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot maintained that "Christian martyrdom is no accident" but an act prearranged either by God or the doomed man. France's Jean Anouilh built his play Becket more on the love-hate relationship of the king and archbishop, but also claimed that Becket was a Saxon rebel against England's Norman overlords. To Poet Christopher Fry, in Curtmantle, King Henry was the tragic hero and focus of the play; Becket vanishes from sight after his murder in the second...
...Archbishop Spellman, which shall be self-inflatable...