Word: caesarism
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...positively regains the self-command which makes possible pure heroic action. The two suicides- as triumphs over Caesar- represent the greatest heroic acts possible in the world. Suicide is the last act to make life comprehensible. It is purified of self-contempt and vain resignation by the capture, through the suffering of shame, of that internal fire which burns the will clear. It is exonerated from the deeper vanity of despair, or storic contemptus mundi, by the perfect fusion of hand and heart. Decretas dispels all ambiguity...
...Like the Caesars. There are other reminders. Near Rome's Duca d'Aosta bridge over the Tiber is an obelisk on which his name is inscribed. Communists once demanded that the stone, marking the former Foro Mussolini, be removed or rechiseled. The government ruled that Mussolini had become just one more dictator in the city's history, along with Caesar, Caracalla or the 14th century Cola di Rienzi. Like them, he was entitled to a place in the ruins...
...Caesar's-wife attitude on conflict of interest, why had it not bothered to fire Station Chairman Max Kampelman, who is an adviser to Hubert Humphrey? Perhaps the unkindest cut of all was in the Woestendiek family's income. Kay isn't sure yet what she'll be earning from Martha, but it hardly will make up for Bill's lost salary...
Michael Schiffer's Enobarbus was monotone but fitfully engaging. His death scene redeemed his absurd flippant, balmy, detachment at the opening. He read every line the same (piano) but it was an agreeable reading. Timothy Clark as Caesar gave disquieting signs of yet another misconceived, automaton, bloodless ruler, but gradually infused this crucial role (for it is a drama of East and West, both imperfectly noble) with the life and subtlety it demands. Clark gave dramatic center to each of his scenes, and so offered the finest performance of the evening...
They spend a giggly evening at a floor show in Caesar's Palace, then, instead of parting in the morning, continue their journey through the Southwest. Their car is pursued by imaginary Indians on the warpath and they realize, finally, that their longing for each other is even deeper than their loneliness. By the time they reach New Orleans, she has confessed to her husband and forced her paramour to make a decision: they will end their marriages and rendezvous in Nice...