Word: caesarism
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Perhaps Pi Day was overshadowed by the Ides of March the next morning. The Ides are easily remembered; they have a great hero in Caesar and a great poet in William Shakespeare. Pi too has its heroes, Archimedes and Lindemann, and a poet in Dante, who in his Divine Commedy wrote eloquently about the geometer's inability to square the circle--"Qual e 'l geometra che tutto s'affige / per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova, / pensando, quel principio ond' elli indige..." But I don't speak Italian, and it seems that for the moment the guy who writes...
...airwaves?it's one of seven Beat vehicles on the air right now?that the host doesn't even bother to familiarize himself with globalization, today's subject, before he arrives on the set. He just shows up?his face scarred, his hair cut in a close-cropped Caesar?and coasts through yet another hour of live before-a-studio-audience television trash. Yet, despite his apparent indifference, he carries the show, not through arch commentary or the Japanese equivalent of Cowardesque wit, but by sheer force of his Beat-ness...
...have been aware of what, exactly, the whole year 2000 extravaganza was commemorating. If you believe their academic jargon, after all, we've just completed two thousand years of the "Common Era"--which apparently took over when the Uncommon Era ran out of gas midway through the reign of Caesar Augustus...
...granola-munching march to irrelevance. We will miss him because in an age of small men, when lackluster eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...
...Julius Caesar was perhaps more appropriate for Shakespeare's time, when people knew the tale and the issues involved were issues faced by most Elizabethans. Noting this, the production staff of Julius Caesar, with the help of the Hyperion Shakespeare banner, will radically transform the play to be meaningful to a modern, college age audience. The play is set in modern America, 20 years from now, when everything has fallen apart. Caesar will focus on actors finding their own connection to the words of the play and the formation of actor-audience relationships. The show promises to be experimental...