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Examination GroupMidyear Examination I Tuesday, January 30 II Wednesday, January 24 III Tuesday, January 23 IV Wednesday, January 31 V Friday, January 26 VI Thursday, January 25 VII Saturday, January 27 VIII Tuesday, January 30 IX Tuesday, January 30 X Saturday, January 20 XI Monday, January 22 XII Friday, January 19 XIII Monday, January 29 XIV Saturday, January 27 XV Saturday, January 20 XVI Saturday, January 20 XVII Thursday, January 25 XVIII Thursday, January...
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL--T.S. Eliot's play about Thomas a Becket and Henry VIII will be presented by the Adam House Drama Society tonight through Sunday in St. John's Chapel, 99 Brattle St. (one block from Radcliffe yard). Curtain at 8:30 p.m. No tickets sold at the door...
...king's, but every subject's soul is his own," wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. The subject in A Man for All Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose his life; he did choose not to lose his soul...
...grave, blithesome and wise. Scofield's art conceals art and achieves a translucency of spirit that summons up noble half-forgotten phrases like "sweet reason" and "gentle honor." In a superb cast, George Rose is comic as a ubiquitous Common Man, and Keith Baxter makes the young Henry VIII an uncut diamond of the Renaissance new learning...
...that Roman Catholics so often get away with calling themselves plain Catholics, although anyone who says the Apostles' Creed identifies himself as a member of the Holy Catholic Church.* But to carry the label Protestant, which goes back more to Martin Luther than to the fuss with Henry VIII, seems to them unjustly imprecise...