Word: harrison
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Cleopatra. As the Serpent of the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor hisses and shows her fangs; she also shows her bangles and her bosom, but little indication that she knows what made Cleo slither. If Rex Harrison is splendid as the urbane Caesar, Richard Burton is disappointing as the befuddled Antony who confuses lust with love...
...first, which tells the story of Caesar and Cleopatra, begins with the battle of Pharsalia, which breaks the power of the republic and makes Caesar (Rex Harrison) master of the Roman world. Having ordered his affairs in Europe, Caesar marches into Egypt, where civil war is raging between King Ptolemy and his seductive sister, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). "Overcome by the charm of her society," as Plutarch discreetly puts it, Caesar gives Egypt to the fascinating bitch and seems inclined to crown her the first empress of Rome. But the Ides of March intervene, and Cleopatra sadly says goodbye...
...Harrison alone deserves the laurel. He makes a charming and surprisingly impressive Caesar-though some may doubt that the most prodigious public energy in human history can be portrayed as the Acheson of antiquity...
GEORGE BAGSHAWE HARRISON, Shakespearean scholar Litt.D...
...should like the opportunity to correct several serious misprints in my letter as published by the CRIMSON (May 17). The first sentence in the third paragraph was almost completely misprinted, and should read as follows: "What is more, Dean Monro and Mr. Harrison implied that in themselves exclusive norms as a basis of association are neither bad nor good." The word "particularly" in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph should read "particularistic"; and in the second sentence of the fifth paragraph the phrase "historical air" should read "historical...