Word: caesarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia's empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over the rest. More terrible than Ivan the Terrible, he enslaved millions in the name of freedom and sent millions to death in the name of improvement of the state. No corner of the world was safe from his ambition or secure from his intrigue. His word was gospel, his will law. He repealed truth and denied God. For millions, he was the infallible...
...Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another...
...James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the A.F.M., announced last week that his union will pick up the tab for all the music at the inauguration, including the performances of such high-priced bands as Guy Lombardo, Fred Waring, Emil Coleman and Wayne King. "I think we're showing the people that even though we voted for Roosevelt and Stevenson we're going along with Ike, even though he is a Republican President . . . Ike is my friend...
...picture also elaborates on the romance between the beautiful Christian maiden, Lavinia (Jean Simmons), and the handsome Roman captain (Victor Mature). The acting styles range all the way from the theatricalism of Maurice Evans as a simpering Caesar to Mature's deadpanning. As the lion-taming hero, TV Actor Alan Young appears imbecilic rather than amiable. Jean Simmons makes a beguiling Lavinia, while Robert Newton tears ferociously into the role of the Christian warrior, Ferrovius. But this screen adaptation of a Shavian classic succeeds mostly in throwing G.B.S. to the lions...
...Previous screen versions of Shaw plays, all filmed in England by Producer Gabriel Pascal: Pygmalion (1938), Major Barbara (1941), Caesar and Cleopatra...