Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This effort, unprecedented in history, is partly caused by changes in military technology: in Julius Caesar's day, the average cost of killing a man in war was 75?; in World War I, it was $21,000, in World War II $75,000, and the cost is still going up. The U.S. would not have a chance of meeting the increased cost of security if it were not for changes in industrial technology, which may be moving even faster than military technology. Nobody knows whether the U.S. can, in fact, carry the burden. It is only certain that...
...this world. The political crisis of Christianity had not come until the 4th Century with the conversion of Constantine; Islam's political crisis, confronting Mohammed at the start of his mission, colored all his teaching and all the subsequent his tory of Islam. Separation of God and Caesar, church and state, would always be alien and painful to Islam. Islam would always be as much a way of organizing society as it was a way of worshiping...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar (TIME...
...marriage of the movies and TV, confidently forecast by many a show-business oracle, is still to come. But last week the courtship was going swimmingly. In the role of Cupid was none other than the A.F.L.'s imperious James Caesar Petrillo, who watches over his American Federation of Musicians with all the protective zeal of an ambitious mother with a marriageable daughter. Sitting down with the representatives of Republic and Monogram studios, he quickly cleared away one obstacle that has prevented film companies from supplying television with movies made since 1946. Petrillo agreed to raise no objections...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...