Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Possible Caesar. An article in an Indian magazine, the Modern Review, written in 1936, described Nehru in this fashion: "Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy. He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient... Is it not possible...
...fashionable Holiday House restaurant after pulling a knife on Chef Carlos Hernandez, slashing the wrist of a dishwasher, hurling a pot of hot coffee that struck a second dishwasher, Waiter John C. Burton explained to police that he was upset over the way Hernandez was mixing a Caesar salad...
...mercy of his buildings. What he sees, how he lives, looks, thinks-even how he dies-are overwhelmingly affected by the structures he designs and builds. Through the generations, good builders have tried to measure up to the formula of Roman Architect Vitruvius Pollio, contemporary of Julius Caesar, but they have often thought more of the structure than of its inhabitants, and have at times produced more monstrosity than delight, more discomfort than commodity. But in mid-20th century the art of well-building has reached a high state, and is moving toward greater achievements...
...read this book is to listen to the prayers of men about to die, who, dying, choose to salute not Caesar...
...teach love for one's fellow country man but for one's neighbor. 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' but not the head of the nation. To the latter, render what is Caesar's . . . but not the soul . . ." Under the Whips. Some, like Julius Leber, a Social-Democratic member of the Reichstag, spoke in tones of courageous epigram in which Americans can hear an echo of Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found...