Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burgers watch television (his favorite: Sid Caesar), or toss shreds of ground meat to fat trout in the pond. "When you catch one of those meat-fed trout," he says, winking, "it tastes like lamb chops...
...Chief of Staff became one of the most ardent MacArthur disciples. He looks on his superior as the 20th Century's outstanding military genius; he will not rank MacArthur for all time, "because it's hard to compare the present day with the time of Napoleon, Caesar or Hannibal...
...Christian guidance, he is fascinated with it and with its lasting insights and demands. In spite of his religious illiteracy, which mirrors our culture and tends to blur his vision of the 'things which are God's,' he is uneasy about the 'things which are Caesar's . . .' His spiritual errors and ignorance often come more from his head than from his heart. Throwing the Bible at him will not heal his hurt, but opening the Book to him might help...
...divided into unequal parts: the hour-long Jack Carter Show, a melange of slow jokes and vaudeville turns, and Your Show of Shows, brilliantly staged by Broadway's Max Liebman and reaching a TV high in literacy, talent and theatricality. Stars of Liebman's show are Sid Caesar, TV's best home-grown comic, and tiny Imogene Coca, an ex-nightclub comedienne. Whether playing the part of young marrieds having the boss to dinner, or a fellow and a girl suffering through the false starts and affectations of a date, they bring a satirical accent to familiar...
...spite of the fact they're spoiled for us at school." A longtime student of the drama himself, Canfield, 47, has been teaching at Amherst since he graduated there 25 years ago. Head of the college drama department and director of the Masquers (who last year presented Julius Caesar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington-TIME, April 11, 1949), Canfield has been spending his sabbatical as a full-time NBC producer, will return to Amherst this fall...