Word: caesarism
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...went to work in the latter's publicity department. Increasingly, the Warner Brothers came to rely on Hal Wallis for production as well as exploitation decisions, put him in charge of First National when they bought that studio in 1928. Wallis made Dawn Patrol, Five Star Final, Little Caesar. In 1931 Warners brought their two plants together. Centre of production was the Burbank lot. Darryl Zanuck was put in charge. Wallis arrived one morning to find a workman taking his name off the door to replace it with that of Zanuck. Wallis sat on the stairs and laughed. What...
...There was a comet when Caesar died," he recalls. The comet turns out to be only a meteor. "We shall have to die without a comet," muses Napoleon Bonaparte. The play ends with Marchand reading to him from the wars of Hannibal...
...Julius Caesar, St. Augustine of Canterbury, William the Conqueror and almost everyone else through the ages who has traveled between England and the Continent, the English Channel has been an annoying journey. This week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...
...power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots and bandits in Galilee, opened the trade routes that were closed whenever Rome's authority was weakened. Ingratiating himself with Caesar, he managed to keep the esteem of the successive rulers of Rome despite their fierce quarrels among themselves, gave his loyalty to each in turn, had only Cleopatra as an implacable enemy among the ruling powers...
Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...