Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Pirandello's thesis, ingeniously stated and restated through 268 pages, is that everyone has a multiple personality; that if anyone tries to examine deeply his own multiplicity, nonentity, possible unity, he will quickly be called a madman. "Julius Caesar, the individual, did not exist. There existed, it is true, a Julius Caesar that we know from so large a part of his life, and this one undoubtedly possesses a value incomparably greater than the others; not, however, so far as reality is concerned, please believe me when I tell you that...
...Shakespere's Julius Caesar and Hamlet," Professor Murray, Harvard...
Melody (words & music by Edward Childs Carpenter, Irving Caesar & Sig- mund Romberg; George White, producer). During a hiatus between Scandals, Producer White has turned his attention to operetta. This one is handsome, melodious, appealing to ear & eye rather than funnybone. It is the sort of play in which, by 11 o'clock, most of the actors are impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early...
Senator Glass argued that in the Depression of 1921-22 the U. S. liquidated the War which had no more to do with the current Depression than "the wars of the Phoenicians or the conquest of Gaul by Caesar." Republican administrations, he declared, encouraged an "orgy of stock speculation" and President Coolidge "figuratively jumped into the stockpit and cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster...
...Tilings That Are Caesar's, by Paul Vincent Carroll (new). An overbearing mother and a sensitive, frail father fight to the death over the choice of a husband for their psychopathic daughter...