Word: caligula
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...seems the elder. Silence from Miller is all that Durrell gets when he criticizes left-wing intellectuals who turn up in Yugoslavia and tell their Communist hosts about the decadence of their own countries and cannot see that they are sympathizing with a tyranny "a 100 times worse than Caligula...
...spark of good in a drug-addicted card cheat or a grasping banker, and it is an immutable law that prostitutes' hearts are warm. But let a novelist introduce a wretch whose vice is writing novels, and there begins a recital of character faults that would have horrified Caligula: the fellow is meanspirited, lazy, a coward, lustful but inept at sex. soggy with drink, cruel to his children, and two months behind on the phone bill...
Front Seat. When Macmillan elevated Home from Commonwealth Relations to the Foreign Office last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality...
...best moments coming in the soliloquies, in which he contemplates each of his bloody acts. But it is not his isolated moments of passion that I want to praise; rather it is the intelligence with which his role is conceived. The tension of the production is created by Caligula's slowly developing insanity. This production convinces us that Caligula's decision to feign madness is rationally made, and that the insanity becomes real as he finds only a flimsy and cowardly opposition to his craving after power. Gullette's final frenzied soliloquy after strangling Caesonia, in which he decides that...
Kenneth Tynan called Caligula a "great bad play," which ranks it far above most of its contemporaries. Camus was on the side of the angels; so are Gullette and Milgrim; and so, therefore, is the Dunster House production...