Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caesar was created in the Papal State last week, and unto him were rendered for six months the things which are Caesar's. Screamed headlines: DICTATOR NAMED FOR VATICAN CITY. In effect wise old Pius XI delegated all but the things which are God's in the Papal State to its trusty Governor, Marquis Camillo Serafini...
This meant that the drones and sinecure holders in Vatican City are in for a thoroughgoing shakeup. Under the broad, benign mandate handed him by Pope Pius, Caesar-For-Six-Months Serafini will first proceed to create an Attorney General's office and a Bureau of Accounts-with all that the abrupt creation of those offices implies...
Greece. The city of Corinth, 1½ miles from the Gulf of Corinth, was a flourishing trade centre as early as the 6th Century B. C. It suffered spoliation at the hands of the Romans, recovered prosperity when Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied...
...cannot tell Cleopatra to sit down twice in an offhand manner unless you really are Caesar. Warren Williams is not Caesar and Cleopatra is not "Egypt" and there is not enough art used to make the audience forget that. If, however, the audience is willing to overlook the irregal appearance of Claudette Colbert and the small town chattiness of Roman teaparties, the picture is a good spectacle. For sheer sensual spectacularity it would be hand to beat the scene where Anthony is first seduced. Food and wine, ballet and flowers with a final crescendo of the music and the solemn...
...This is the most imposing event in the history of Italy," said her 20th Century Caesar. "Indeed it is unprecedented in any history...