Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cronies and family began cashing in on that weakness. Son Khalil's law practice and business deals began showing enormous profits. So did Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...
...Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.) was based on the solar year, i.e., the time it takes the earth to make its orbit around the sun. But Caesar's astronomers had not been accurate: the Julian year was 11 minutes, 14 seconds longer than the solar year. If this had gone on unchecked, spring would eventually have fallen in December, Easter coincided with Christmas...
Time was when Michael Solomon was known as just about the most contented teacher in The Bronx. His subject was Latin, and when he first started at the DeWitt Clinton High School in 1908, almost every pupil went at least through Caesar. Even as late as 1923, when he became head of the department, he could boast 16 teachers of Latin on his staff...
...main issue of Author Borden's novel-God or Caesar-is presented clearly in the account of the trial. But the human significance of the problem is blurred by the author's strong suggestion of a superhuman solution: Martin is martyred under circumstances markedly resembling those under which Christ was sent to the Cross-as indeed his whole story is touched up with quiet little parallels to Christ's life...
Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca return from summer holidays...