Word: caesarism
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...This author, like most of his predecessors in this particular field, finds that he needs a comprehensive knowledge of the thought and customs of all times, and that comprehensive knowledge he manifestly does not have. He gets around this shortcoming, and incidentally improves the product immensely, by leaving Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ out of the work. No expedient so simple can rid him either of his appalling ignorance of grammar, or of his incredibly jejune fancy. Yet there is in this work an ideology for above that of the common popular work; the "Outline of Heaver" would...
...Japanese Bruti who slew Premier Ki Inukai for his "excessive pacifism" (TIME, May 23, 1932) stood in the dock before the Naval Court Martial at Yokosuka naval base last week while their Japanese attorney, in his final defense plea, quoted adroitly from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
Xerxes and Byron had their Hellespont, Moses his Red Sea, and Caesar his Rhine and Rubicon, but none of them showed the ingenuity of the local engineers confronted by King Charles. They could solve their traffic problems and divert traffic from Harvard Square by extending Memorial Drive along the Charles's left bank, but that was too easy. They might well have thrown a bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge...
...name entered in the Democratic primaries voted last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 2). He preferred to retire to a $50,000-a-year bank job. He was offered the top place on a Fusion ticket to oust Tammany from the City Hall in next month's elections. Like Caesar, Joseph McKee for the third time waved away his honors. It therefore surprised many of his fellow citizens, disgusted many more, and dismayed both Fusion and Tammany when, last week, after a fortnight's indecision culminating in a 48-hour period during which three appointments were made and broken with...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...