Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" left its first Harvard audience agreeably bewildered last night. It will be repeated at 9 o'clock on the evenings of Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, and, it was recently announced, once again on Wednesday, to accommodate the crowds lured by the name of the author and the originality of the undertaking...
...Murder in the Cathedral", while leaving one a little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious...
...tonight at 9 o'clock the Vagabond will go to the courtyard of the Fogg Museum to see presented T. S. Eliot's play, "Murder in the Cathedral...
...students who have been excessively nervous because of suspicious looking men lurking around the gates of the Yard recently need have no fears of possible arson, murder, kidnapping, or any other parlous deeds...
...Poet's Theatre may well usher in a dramatic rebirth among students. Verse plays are appropriate vehicles lending themselves readily to every field, ranging in subject from modern burlesque to medieval liturgy. As such they should appeal to both artistic and popular factions. Nurtured from within by undergraduates, "Murder in the Cathedral" may well give cause for hope that Harvard is once more drama-conscious...