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...plot seemed like something out of Becket. The conspirator's accomplice, a poor man, was to go to the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil and there seek out a certain troublesome archbishop. "That priest," the accomplice was told, "must be eliminated." As it happened, the 1968 scenario was never played out. The would-be assassin was too softhearted to go through with the murder. Instead, he went to his intended victim, confessed the plot and warned him that others might...
...atrocity stories flow into the spartan London headquarters of Amnesty International from all over the world: political prisoners beaten, shocked, drugged or maimed for the crime of criticizing their government. Says American Lawyer James Becket, who is preparing a worldwide survey of the subject for A.I.: "Rulers of the past often openly institutionalized torture to better defend their power and privilege. Their counterparts today solemnly deny it publicly while they are busily refining the technology of torture and the theory of order without...
...Becket. (1964) Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole are exceptional as Henry II and Becket in this film version of the Jean Anouilh play. CH. 10. 8:30 p.m. Color...
Like Jesus Christ--Superstar, Godspell avoids the Resurrection. "Long live God," the cast sings as they carry off Christ's dead body rather as if he were Hamlet or perhaps Thomas a Becket. Consequently, this musical never has to come to terms with itself. Who or what is this Christ we have before us? Well, let's just say he sure could tell a mean parable. And, when it came to a group sing, he sure could get it together...
...Cliffs insularity interact with a suspicion that the Common Market is Catholic and capitalist and would corrupt Protestant and socialist Britain. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, British Journalist Paul Johnson divided Britons into insularists (King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anthony Eden) and Continentalists (Thomas a Becket. Charles I, Harold Macmillan). "Britain has always chosen the adventure of sovereignty in preference to the presumed security of a Continental system," wrote Johnson. "And history shows that in the end she has always chosen rightly...