Word: caesarism
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...Story. Little Caesar is Rico, gangster, an able, hard-working author's serious attempt to put a contemporary U. S. type into U. S. literature...
...Significance. Author Burnett, impersonal, powerful, may prove to be the novelist which Ernest Hemingway once promised to be but is not yet. Little Caesar is masterly writing as well as great reporting. The story holds together toughly through many intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June...
...which have come in for so much newspaper comment and publicity in the past few months, are now put between the covers of a novel, and furnish such good entertainment, apparently, that they are the selection of the Literary Guild for their readers in the month of June. "Little Caesar", the first novel of W. R. Burnett, published by the Dial Press, is the new Baedeker to gangland, drawing chiefly on the shady side of the night clubs for its material...
...Manhattan, Professor Huber, manager of a troupe of fleas, conducted his performers from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...
...three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots. All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic. Into the thighs of those 72 dements, to check another investigator's work (Dr. Harry Caesar Solomon of Boston), Dr. Alex S. Hershfield of Chicago and five associates injected Spirochaeta morsusmuris...