Word: caesarism
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...Caesar's men first fortified the crag as sentry for their nearby town of Cadurcum (Cahors). The brawling Counts of Toulouse held it in the days when Italian money lenders flocking to Cahors made "caorism" a synonym for usury. The Bishops of Cahors, who held Mercuès longest, built a fortress there; and under its battlements rode robber barons, Knights Templar and hymn-singing pilgrims to Rome and Jerusalem. Henry II of England led his armoured warriors past Mercuès and Thomas à Beckett paused there on his way to become governor of Cahors. By the reign...
Despite their inartistic preoccupation with profits, the Warners have managed to turn out some of Hollywood's most highly respected pictures. They have also launched many a Hollywood "trend": film biography with George Arliss' Disraeli (1929); a new gangster cycle with Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1930-31); social-consciousness movies with I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); the first big backstage musical, 42nd Street (1933); the first attempt to sound-film Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
With sweeping scorn, Jackson tackled their common excuse that only Hitler was to blame. "The defendants may have become slaves of a dictator, but he was their dictator. . . . They were the Praetorian Guard, and while they were under Caesar's orders, Caesar was always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue...
...first time since Caesar crossed the Rubicon, in 49 B. C., the Italian peninsula was a republic. In their first free national election in a quarter century, 24 million men and women (these voting for the first time) decided five-to-four against continuing the monarchy. Simultaneously, they took a stand beside their French cousins (TIME, June 10) for Western democracy and against the advance of Soviet Communism...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...