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...from being a barbarous monster, Holofernes (Paul Sparer) is Shaw's Caesar, an aphoristic philosopher-king who erotically brainwashes the girl. She swoon-dives into his bed, only to knife him to death at dawn (Giraudoux's style forbids a gory beheading). Judith's romantic rationale for the killing is that love was bound to be blunted by repetition or betrayed by neglect...
...Unto Caesar, unto Sod. As the most sophisticated and powerful of the tools devised by man, the computer has already affected whole areas of society, opening up vast new possibilities by its extraordinary feats of memory and calculation. It is changing the world of business so profoundly that it is producing a new era in Arnold Toynbee's "permanent industrial revolution." It has given new horizons to the fields of science and medicine, changed the techniques of education and improved the efficiency of government. It has affected military strategy, increased human productivity, made many products less expensive and greatly...
...current for much of the nation, route long-distance telephone calls, set newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage is made. They navigate ships and planes, mix cakes and cement, prepare weather forecasts, check income tax returns, direct city traffic and diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting the ballots of the world's Catholic bishops at sessions of the Ecumenical Council in St. Peter's Basilica...
DIZZY GOES HOLLYWOOD (Philips) could more properly be called Hollywood Goes Dizzy, and what a way to go. Gillespie's trumpet throws flames octaves high while it sears eleven songs and movie themes, including those from Caesar and Cleopatra, Never on Sunday and Lawrence of Arabia. Walk on the Wild Side gets the most extended and exploratory treatment along the lines of its title...
...Roman. In countless apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince his countrymen that their defeat was inevitable. Later, as a court favorite in Rome, he turned out voluminous histories extolling the grandeur of the Roman Empire. But while rendering unto Caesar, he was a lucid, readable historian, whose chronicles are packed with largely reliable political and social detail...