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...CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA...
...extenuating, to point out that Americans did not invent slavery. Their form of chattel slavery, however, was uniquely ugly. Still, slavery has a long, dishonorable history. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia kept slaves before 2000 B.C., and the Code of Hammurabi laid down rules governing the practice. In eight years, Caesar sent back some 500,000 slaves from Gaul to work mines, plantations and public projects; some, of course, became gladiators. The Domesday Book recorded 25,000 slaves in England. Races from the Mayans to the Muslims to, notably, black Africans have kept slaves for many centuries, in varying degrees...
Miller offers a spirited defense. "Julius Caesar had his Brutus," he says, "but I've got about a hundred Brutuses. The problems I have are not with the membership, it's with the elected officials and the staff." Miller explains, with some justice, that almost from the day he was elected, opponents have tried to undermine his administration. First, he says, it was the obstructionist international board, then the opposition of U.M.W. Vice President Mike Trbovich, who has been forced out of the fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller...
...onstage eight times a week with Rex Harrison, a true champion in his 60s who still gets the girl," gloats Elizabeth Ashley. At 37, she is playing a 16-year-old Cleopatra to Harrison's 50-year-old Caesar in the G.B. Shaw play at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ashley is delighted with her jewel-studded Egyptian robes, "the most breathtaking drag I've ever had on." For her sequined eye makeup she got some tips from another Cleopatra: Elizabeth...
From the time of Caesar's Commentaries onward, military historians have tended to treat armed combat as a means to larger political ends or the chessboard on which generals tested strategy. There are, to be sure, shelves of How-I-Suffered-in-the-War stories. But Keegan wanted something more, a broad, systematic answer to the question that most bothered his Sandhurst students: "What is it like to be in a battle...