Word: archbishop
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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...
...David Gullette's portrayal of the archbishop, humanity overcomes certainty. He turns to arguing, and frequently seeks to persuade: he does not trust to the power of Eliot's spare poetry. His Becket is strong and individual; Eliot believed that the martyr was a spiritual ideal who had gone beyond humanity...
...still I wonder, all dramatic problems aside, whether the Archbishop murdered this evening was really a saint...
...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...
...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...