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Students playing minor roles are: Benedict Einarson, J.P.F., John H. Huntington '40, Michael Linenthal '37, Howard T. Roman 1G., Richmond Holder '40, and John W. Sever '40. The lead part, that of the tragic Thomas Becket, will be played by the Broadway veteran E. Irving Looke...
...play, written by T. S. Eliot '09, is the story of the assassination of Thomas A. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry H. First produced at the Canterbury Festival, in June, 1935, it has run over 300 performances in London and has appeared in his country under WPA auspices in New York and at Yale...
...Capitalism Doomed?, has been a member of the U. S. foreign service and a member of the staff of the banking house of J. & W. Seligman & Co. Born in Georgia 41 years ago, he is a graduate of Harvard, lives on a 200-acre farm in the Berkshires, near Becket, Mass., identifies himself as a Republican who hopes that the Republican Party will take over the U. S. and operate it as a Fascist corporate state. Denying that he is a "rabble rouser," Lawrence Dennis has said of himself: "I am too intellectual to be a good demagogue ... I believe...
...capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...circular window is of interest not only because of its own intrinsic beauty and value, but because of the very question of its provenance. At the time of its presentation to the Museum, the window was said to have come from Canterbury Cathedral and was thought to represent Thomas Becket healing pilgrims at a shrine. It was suggested at that time that the glass was removed from Canterbury Cathedral about 200 years ago, the supposition being that the man in charge of the glass at that time was more interested in the new style of eighteenth century glass than...