Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, after Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen sent word that his aides could be interviewed by subcommittee staff members only in the presence of either Stassen or his lawyers. Cried North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin-of Stassen: "What meat doth this Caesar eat, that he hath grown so great?'' Growled Joe McCarthy: Stassen's stand was "the most unheard of thing I have seen...
...Even Caesar's Wife. Churchill still had misgivings. There were seeds of future trouble in turning so much of Germany over to Poland-"I do not wish to stuff the Polish goose until it dies of German indigestion." The Prime Minister visualized a mass deportation of Germans. Was this not inhumane? "I ... feel conscious of the large school of thought in England which is shocked at the idea of transferring millions of people." He added: "Personally, I am not shocked...
...future of Eastern Europe. But it was not argued on principle or bargained from strength. Roosevelt thought of the 6,000,000 American-Polish voters. "The matter is not only one of principle," he said, "but of practical politics ... I want this election ... to be ... like Caesar's wife. I did not know her, but they said she was pure...
...Academy holds by these propositions, not all the force of Caesar can break down its walls; but if the Academy is bent upon sneering at everything in heaven and earth, or upon reforming itself after the model of the market place, not all the eloquence of the prophets can save...
This season Liebman imported some of his top stars from abroad, notably Britain's Jean Carson and France's Jacques Tati and Jeanmaire. He hopes to get Imogene Coca back under his wing for a production of Happy Birthday, and is looking for a vehicle for Sid Caesar...