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Apart from pithy comments on soldiering, Warner's Caesar defends himself as a kind of imperial efficiency expert surrounded by captious, old-fashioned critics, including Cicero and Cato, who are blindly resisting change. He is an Organization Superman who wants to transform Rome from a forum of squabbling, parochial rivals to an orderly, centralized headquarters of empire. Argues Caesar: "A great empire could not be administered by relays of incompetent politicians. 'Liberty' meant nothing but restriction and inefficiency...
...York Times's Columnist Arthur Krock: Since many of the reasons given by Senators as outweighing [Strauss's] extraordinary achievements were captious, plainly contrived, palpably the result of political or personal pressure or vindictive, it is not inconceivable the American people will produce a much larger majority for Strauss than the Senate produced against...
...after reading this beautiful beeography, can again regard a spoonful of honey as merely a convenient way of disposing of a slice of toast. And only a captious reader will complain of sedulous Apiarist Crompton's unholier-than-thou attitude toward the bee. The bee is better than me, seems to be his buzz...
...never read for pleasure," said captious, craft-minded Novelist John P. (Women and Thomas Harrow) Marquond to the New York Herald Tribune. "I don't have time. If spare moments do occur, I read Dumas, Tolstoy and Trollope, in that order, with occasionally a little Conrad. Sometimes I read Fielding, but that's only when I'm alone in the evening and have three drinks inside me. Richardson? He requires more drinks...
Lighting up the first Horizon's 152 pages this week are captious musical memories of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an exuberant, perkily illustrated survey of pioneer ballooning, and 16 pages of photographs suggesting the glory of the earth's creation. Energetically but less successfully, Horizon embraces such -ho-hum items as a spoof on wine snobbery, a mystique-ridden study of why men climb mountains. It also carries a long-winded sneer at the Beat Generation, including abstract expressionist painters. But in another article it acknowledges that Abstract Painter Willem de Kooning is among the nation's bestsellers...