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...colleague of Richard Nixon on the Un-American Activities once cited for spreading communist propaganda. Classics-minded sources tell me this play is pretty misogynist, however, and it's being done in the original Greek, which should minimize its danger. I will not quote the relevant line from Julius Caesar. Tonight till Saturday, 7:30 at the Loeb...
Literate Articles. Macropaedia readers will still find the literate, initialed articles by world-renowned experts that are the Britannica's hallmark -but, say the editors, without the overlaps, omissions and inconsistencies of earlier editions. There is Arnold Toynbee on Julius Caesar and leading American Catholic Theologian John L. McKenzie on Roman Catholicism, English Embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer on evolution and Carl Sagan (see BOOKS) on the planets and extraterrestrial life. The late Sir Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly...
...comet appeared, it was taken as a sign from heaven of impending calamity: a flood, an outbreak of disease or even the fall of a king or empire. Plutarch wrote that a brilliant comet shone for seven nights in the sky over Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar. In Shakespeare's dramatization of that event, Caesar's wife echoes the same theme: "When beggars die, there are no comets seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes...
When another Caesar-possessed president decides he wants to crisp Latins or Southeast Asians in the name of freedom (along with assorted U.S. servicemen), if there is no loud-mouthed media to ring with the debate, then we'll be into another impossible war without ever really hearing about...
...Little Caesar. 1930. An early tragic epic of the gangster world with Edward G. Robinson magnificent as star-crossed hood Rico Bandello...