Word: despotically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk, underlings watched...
...week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying to bury her brother, Italian-born Marisa was lovely to look at, but she spoke as if she were...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...sense, the U.S. had helped touch off the Communist time of troubles by publishing the Khrushchev speech that confessed the violent crimes of the Stalin era (TIME. June11). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had since reiterated that although Khrushchev damned despotism, the speech clearly revealed Khrushchev as a despot too−and this line has been echoed by bemused Communists throughout the West. "International Communism is in a state of perplexity and at internal odds," said Dulles at his press conference last week, "because certain basic truths have caught up with it . . . This is, above all, a time...
Khrushchev himself is a despot and the speech "the most damning indictment of despotism ever made by a despot...