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...production fairly reeks of effort. There is a huge cast, most of whom snap off their parts with creditable energy under Daniel Seltzer's direction. There are lavish sets and lavish costumes (so many that poor Caesar can scarcely be distinguished from the richly robed citizens he leads onstage). A battle scene, surely the most grandiose ever stage at Harvard, takes up a good portion of the second...
Larger Than Life. One of the most brilliant soldiers of all time, MacArthur stamped out his character and achievement on a full half-century of history. In another age, he might have been an emperor. He envisioned himself as a child of destiny. Like Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, he conceived and fought monumental battles with huge armies, and like those bygone warriors, he viewed his times and his own acts as decisive in history. His triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist...
...rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar's path...
Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round. But today more and more families who measure their estates in feet rather than acres are buying prefab greenhouses for the cost of a secondhand car or less, and filling the house with chrysanthemums, African violets or glossy greenery while the snow flies...
Rehearsals for Julius Caesar have been going on for two weeks; rehearsals for King Lear since last Sunday. Both productions will be performed again during Commencement Week...