Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coast-to-coast trip took only about four minutes; the rest of the hour-and-a-half show never strayed too far from the routine (with one exception), although it continued to jump from East to West Coast and up to Canada for a scene from Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival. The exception was Cantinflas, the famed Mexican comic, fighting a small (700-lb.) bull in a Tijuana bullring. Cantinflas came out wearing a crushed, narrow-brimmed fedora and pants that hovered uncertainly halfway down his hips. The bull took one look at him and seemed frankly baffled...
...Julius Caesar, by Alfred Duggan. An absorbing new portrait of the biggest Roman of them all, with fascinating sidelights on the pols and politics of ancient Rome (TIME, June...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
Heritage v. Histrionics. In 65 days he was master of all Italy. As his troops swaggered into Rome, they sang: "Home we bring the bald adulterer. Romans, lock your wives away." A cowed Senate voted him dictator-for-life. Caesar was supreme and lorded it over his social peers, showing what Author Duggan considers his "one weakness, a contempt for the self-respect of his fellow men." "Why don't you make me restore the old constitution?" he taunted a venerable Senator who failed to rise in his presence. For such taunts he paid at the base of Pompey...
...great merit of Duggan's Caesar is that he is not a tailor's dummy draped in a thesis. Professional historians from Tacitus to Mommsen have cloaked Caesar in dissertations about one-man power, the Roman constitution, and the pros and cons of emperors and empires. On the other hand, Duggan feels no need to give Caesar a coating of grease paint so he can strut the stage. Author Duggan has grasped the elusive obvious, that great men are measured by heritage, not histrionics. As Duggan sees it, Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts...