Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps, Trochta was long wooed by the Czech Communist regime, which hoped to turn him into a "progressive" bishop. Trochta himself had hoped to get along with the state by sticking strictly to "the things that are God's," found that under Communism, Caesar demands all things...
...Waterfront (Horizon; Columbia) is an attempt by a master director, Elia Kazan, to develop heroic, classic-style drama out of dockside thuggery and union corruption. Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious-largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice-the old sentimental prejudice that...
Flanders is bloody ground, and its history a story of violence: for centuries the alien peoples of Europe have swarmed over her rich, open plain, to pillage, plunder and fight battles: Caesar's legions from the south; Viking raiders from the north, who left their word for landing-stage (bryggja) behind in the name of the Flemish city of Bruges; from the east fierce Germanic tribesmen, whose rough gutturals are reflected in the language of Flanders; from close at hand the troops of Louis XI, Napoleon, Wellington...
Hungarian-born Perfectionist Pascal rose to fame and fortune with Pygmalion (1938). went on to make a career of producing G.B.S. on the screen (Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), won the Irish master's rare rating of "genius...
...Little Caesar. In East Providence. R.I.. attempting to hold up a hardware store. Joseph Reposa was recognized by the proprietor, had his rusty, unloaded gun snatched from him, found his getaway...