Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes-the Chinese offering American Lucky Strikes from a woven-grass case. Between puffs, Cheng sadly recalled how once it was the Western fashion to praise Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China for resisting the Japanese. What was it Shakespeare's Mark Antony had said over murdered Caesar...
...yesterday the word of Caesar might...
...Worship Caesar . . ." Next day, in his embassy's tapestry-hung reception room, Cheng spoke less subtly but no less wisely. Britain's recognition of Red China, he said, "is equivalent to burying us while we are still very much alive . . . Homage to force and violence is very dangerous . . . for if you worship Caesar you will have Caesars-and what is worse, their bad imitators . . . One day you will need us again...
...strangely akin to modesty: "Do not think of my plays as Oklahomas averaging $120,000 a week or else flopping. My audiences are more or less select and . . . seldom average capacity." But elsewhere in his torrent of advice, the old man sounded reassuringly Shavian: "I rank a revival of Caesar and Cleopatra as the nearest thing . . . to a gilt-edged security...
...miles away, Playwright George Bernard Shaw kept a close, finicky eye on his latest Broadway revival. For nine months he badgered the producers with peppery cables, letters and postcards telling them just how to finance, cast and stage the play. He hand-picked Sir Cedric as Caesar (having coached him in the role in London in 1925), and gave Lilli Palmer his blessing as Cleopatra after Gertrude Lawrence brought her around for a visit last summer. He even passed on the production's Manhattan playhouse...