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STRATFORD, Conn.--Bernard Shaw often took a condescending attitude to Shakespeare. But even when taking potshots at Julius Caesar, Shaw conceded that it is "the most splendidly written political melodrama we possess." Since we cannot escape politics, the play is always timely. It is particularly so in a national election year like this one; and again so at the end of a decade of violence wreaked upon major public figures from President Kennedy to Governor Wallace. With Caesar cut down not by a loner but by a handful within his own group, there is a striking recent parallel...
...miles off the East African coast, united with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited, or bothered with the mainland...
...wonder why American journalists keep trying to write about Rome as though it provided some very significant analogy to America. Remember John Gunther producing that book about Julius Caesar? Teddy White wrote a play, too, about crossing the Rubicon. Even Hemingway, in the midst of covering the Spanish Civil War, wrote a grotesque playlet about the three Roman soldiers who had just crucified Christ. One of them keeps repeating, "I tell you, he was pretty good in there today...
...MUST RUN WHILE THEY WALK: A Portrait of Africa's Julius Nyerere...
...Julius Nyerere is in some ways an improbable haba wa taifa (father of a nation). A scholarly and somehow puckishly Gandhian man, he led Tanganyika to remarkably peaceful independence from Britain in 1961 and then presided over its union with the island of Zanzibar in 1964, when the two together became Tanzania...