Word: caesarism
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...dramatic, for the pathetic, for the emotional, failed signally to capture the main dramatic theme of the Democratic Convention. It was a nominating Convention, and blindly the Press sought drama in the nomination, a hero in the nominee. Shakespeare, a greater dramatist, knew well that, in the tragedy of Caesar, Brutus was the moving character...
...days following the Civil War, when it was ordered dissolved, it breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?all in the author's most approved manner and with the technique developed in his Birth of a Nation (cinematized by Griffith...
...presented his own case. He paced up and down before the Committee for an hour, carrying on a running fire of debate with the Committee, with his opponents. Referring to J. L. Phillips, former leader of the opposing faction, he declaimed: "The contestants here are playing the tragedy of Caesar with Caesar left out. Where is the National Committeeman you elected at Atlanta? Can you answer in decency? "I will tell you where he is. He is on trial in the District of Columbia, charged with stealing $2,000,000 of money from the Government in this War profiteering." "What...
Standing upon the stones of Caesar's forum in Rome, Benito invoked the glories of the past to assembled Italian volunteers, ending his discourse with: "These stones of Rome are but steps from which the newer Rome will bear the torch of the future...
...Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed, his head against a wall, according to his legend. Dante finds him in the Harpy-haunted Wood of suicides and lets him defend his honor and good faith...