Word: caesarism
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...Humber at every leave to spot, in 1940. a second boat. When they were "demobbed" last year, a corps of enthusiasts joined the sloshy fun, extracted the boats, bore them off for exhibition in London. Experts pronounced them boats of the ancient, blue-dyed Britons, older than Julius Caesar by about 400 years...
Rank's Caesar & Cleopatra ($2,250,000), the only foreign film to squeeze into the top 60, barely made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...
...liberal, on the other hand, would say: (1) to gain the support of the American people, the liberal movement must be "as pure as Caesar's wife: the masses of the American people don't like Communists and it is the pragmatic duty of the liberal to deter to this if he wishes to get anywhere at all: (2) from bitter experience, we (the ADA) can say that the Communist within the liberal organization is dangerous--he forces the liberal to keep one eyes on the "family silverware" even while the great liberal "battle at the gate" is raging...
...Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly in the mood for high jinks, and toward the end the lion is all he needs to turn the whole thing into a circus. Androcles (Ernest Truex) waltzes gaily with the lion (John Becher); Caesar is first chased by it and then takes the credit for taming it; and at the last he orders all his followers to turn Christian...
...careful. But in six months to a year, as new patterns form, he becomes a cheerful extrovert. Psychologists have found no evidence that lobotomy impairs intelligence, though foresight and initiative are often diminished. At Boston's Psychopathic Hospital, whose staffmen have done 200 lobotomies, Director Harry Caesar Solomon reports that patients, after lobotomy, have done well as college students, math teachers, businessmen...