Word: caesar
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...idealistic conscience launched on the treacherous pragmatic seas of political action. His spirit travels in an arc of anguish from the moment he plunges his sword into the Roman tyrant to receive the heart-rending rebuke "Et tu, Brute?- Then fall Caesar!" to the moment he runs on the selfsame sword...
...Gylan Kain's Cassius is less convincing. He possesses the character's guile and envy but not his menace. Morgan Freeman, an actor of intrepid gifts, would have suited the part better, and is somewhat wasted as Casca. While firm in his authority, Sonny Jim Games' Caesar is smugly arrogant rather than imperiously regal...
NONFICTION: ADistant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M Forster: A Life, P. N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch...
...American Caesar, Manchester...
...moon rockets. Religion was for everything else, the immeasurable: morals, sacraments, poetry, insanity, death and some residual forms of politics and statesmanship. Religion became, in both senses of the word, immaterial. Science and religion were apples and oranges. So the pact said: render unto apples the things that are Caesar's, and unto oranges the things that are God's. Just as the Maya kept two calendars, one profane and one priestly, so Western science and religion fell into two different conceptions of the universe, two different vocabularies...