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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...
...Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, by Anthony Rhodes. Italy's flamboyant warrior-poet is portrayed in an entertaining biography...
...Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, by Anthony Rhodes. Italy's flamboyant warrior-poet is portrayed in an entertaining biography...
...Devil is nervous. Something is all too pleasant in the state of Hell, and the residents are too contented to be there. As if in extension of Shaw's Man and Superman, the Devil decides to send Don Juan (Robert Mandan) to earth to see what is causing the trouble. Up goes Don Juan-into a most un-Seville world. He tries to guitar his way through a modern woman's window, but she (Beverly McFadden) is impatient with all that jazz. Her door stands open. He purrs softly: "To describe your beauty, night, which veils your modesty...
...largely the work of two poets-Dante.'with his "conception of a revised Roman Empire which lay dormant in the Italian mind for nearly 600 years." and D'Annunzio. who grafted onto this conception a set of Machiavellian politics and alien Nietzschean notions of a Mediterranean superman...