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...contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions...
Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not everyone can offer his own composition, as Richard Wagner did when he gave the Siegfried Idyll to his wife. But the art of giving would be immensely enhanced if more people today took whatever skill and time they had to make gifts themselves...
...festival were inexperienced, younger undergraduates, many of whom wrested juicy parts away from their elders. Seltzer was bringing a totally new generation into the Loeb. And yet, as his detractors were quick to note, Seltzer had given himself the juiciest parts of all. He was to direct Julius Caesar, starring Hamlin, and to star in King Lear, directed by Hamlin. Many excluded from major roles in the festival saw a Seltzer conspiracy to build an organization geared toward Seltzer's goal of putting the Loeb in the course catalogue. More ominously, they foresaw a drama department with Seltzer in charge...
...Shakespeare Festival was not the smashing success Seltzer hoped it would be. His Julius Caesar was poorly received, as was King Lear, which followed. The Marlowe readings, somewhat more successful, were no triumph either. Some of the actors consigned to small roles in the Shakespeare plays, or to larger ones onlyin the readings, had declined their parts to become temporary Loeb exiles. They were hardly overcome with grief over the Festival's failings...
Taking from Caesar. Many voters saw in legalized gambling a fiscal panacea whereby they would not only have to render less unto Caesar but also-with luck-Caesar might render something unto them. In New York, a state lottery for the support of education received overwhelming endorsement, while in New Jersey, night harness racing was approved, opening the track-and the heavily taxed parimutuel windows-to many people who could not make it in the daytime...