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Thank you for a fitting eulogy on TV's last appeal to humor and reason-Sid Caesar. Henceforth I shall read on Saturday night...
Giving Unto Caesar...
...completely at a loss to understand TIME'S (and NBC's) puzzlement over Sid Caesar's current predicament [May 27]. Your paragraphs about "overexposure" were so much wasted space. Other comedians have cried the blues about TV, have floundered and failed. Sid alone has gone on year after year getting better all the time. There is nothing mysterious whatever about Lawrence Welk getting the higher rating; the higher the art form, the smaller its TV audience. STEVE ALLEN New York City...
...Over the heads of millions of viewers (Viewers whose heads should be roasted on skewers) Sails the talent of Caesar and crew, Not missed by the many, but mourned...
...parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace a Caesar. Author de Riencourt traces what he takes to be an imperial growth of presidential power from the age of Jackson to Franklin Roosevelt, who, he says, was symbolically offered the kingly crown that Caesar, on the Lupercal, "did thrice refuse." To a Cleveland crowd during the 1940 campaign, Roosevelt said...