Word: martyrdoms
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...Vandenberg way did not include the public martyrdom of a Billy Mitchell or the free-swinging tactics of a "Hap" Arnold. Van ducked involvement in side issues and took long detours around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged...
...fables about Lowell House's intellectual martyrdom is that, alone among the House, it can fill its library on the Saturday evening of a big dance. This fable is perfectly true. Last Saturday, the evening of the big Lowell House formal, while one third of the House was prancing around in formal garb, and leading their dates to a served dinner in the dining room, another, smaller contingent was busy in the library...
Keeping his comment to a minimum, Murrow made his show largely from newsreel clips of McCarthy in action on the rostrum and the committee bench-a contrived but effective record of arrogance and assumed martyrdom, of half-stifled belches and heavy-handed humor. Radio & TV men spent the next day congratulating each other that the networks had, for once, shaken off their habitual timidity...
Specifically, Eliot shows the struggle of Archbishop Thomas a Becket to achieve the purification necessary for martyrdom, and the effect of his death on the people of Canterbury. But Thomas' martyrdom is to have universal meaning. For this reason, Becket and every person in the play, seem intentionally pale and undefined. Eliot champions a stylized drama in which the playwright, not the actor or director, is responsible for every nuance and subtlety of meaning. Particularly in "Murder in the Cathedral," there is little room for individual interpretation. A slight tendency to overact can damage the effect produced by the play...
...less demanding. The only actors with parts that varied enough to warrant individual comment were those who played both the four temptors in the first act and the murdering knights in the second. Robert Schwarz's straightforward earnestness as the temptor who offered Thomas the greatest gift of all--martyrdom--is skillfully handled, while Andre Gregory is delightfully whimsical as he offers Becket the joys of past dissipations. As the two temptors who offer various forms of temporal power, Louis Begley and John Docker are only fair. Begley over-acts to the point of appearing a scheming spy, and Docker...