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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caesar himself has been transformed from Mussolini into Hitler, complete with hair hanging in his face and nervous uneasiness. Possibly the reason for preferring the Teuton to the Latin is that in the play so much is made of the dictator's bodily infirmities, all of which applies much better to Der Fuhrer than to the robust Italian. Lawrence Fietcher in the title role does his relatively small job with all the proper arrogance...
When ambitious little President Getulio Vargas of Brazil made himself an iron-clad dictator (TIME, Nov. 22), the alarmed press of democratic countries cried: "Naziism Invades Brazil." Most scared of all by this announcement was Dictator Vargas who had only intended to follow an old Latin American custom. Last week, informed that Government functionaries had ordered the deportation of 1,200 aliens who had entered Brazil as tourists and remained illegally, Dictator Vargas was shocked to learn that 900 of them were Jewish fugitives from Germany. To prevent the cry of "Nazi" being raised again, he hastily announced that...
...London's brummagem, polyglot Soho quarter last week, the end of the Octave of Epiphany-brought the end of a series of services at old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, which had successively been conducted in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Latin, Gaelic, Polish, French, English, Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert...
...February 16 Carl N. Jackson '98, professor of Greek and Latin, will lecture on "Homer...
...February 23 Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will speak on "Horace...