Word: caesarism
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...Boss Caesar Petrillo last week spotted a hole in the dike he had raised against new phonograph recordings. Record companies were waxing singers with all-vocal (hence nonunion) rather than instrumental accompaniment (TIME, June 28). Petrillo quickly stuck his thumb in the hole, asked singers to quit doing that. His request was really an ultimatum. Vocalists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Connie Boswell well knew that failure to comply might bar them from future recordings or appearances with Boss Petrillo's union musicians...
...Italians' romantic love of their homeland and their nostalgia for past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism. He fancied himself a new Julius Caesar, was courted by the world's big shots, loved to be called leonine and at the same time "father of his people." He helped Adolf Hitler to power, was mastered by his pupil. Trapped by his own illusions of grandeur, he led his people into war in an unholy alliance with Germany and Japan. By 1943 he had lost his Empire, and Allied bombs and bayonets threatened to chase him into...
...took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether it was he or Caesar that got killed in the second...
Though epilepsy is common-one in every 200 has it-the disease is the subject of two popular fallacies: 1) epileptics are "backward," 2) nothing can be done for epilepsy. The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius-history's epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or cured by drugs (usually bromides, phenobarbital or dilantin sodium), surgery or change in living habits...
Today only a handful of virtuoso ocarinists rate the honor of membership in Boss James Caesar Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians. But the "sweet potato" has its quota of passionate partisans...