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...departing from his own principles; the other-directed, living in hope of the approval of his peers, is seldom free of a diffuse anxiety lest this approval be withheld. Riesman notes that from the walls of the inner-directed school, the ruins of Pompeii and the bust of Caesar often looked down-reminders of the past from which one learned the moral principles of history, part of the gyroscopic mechanism. These pressed stern standards upon a child -and many children were crushed. But the school for the other-directed has its own mural pressures. "The walls of the modern grade...
...E.S.T.), a color-telecast monthly musical series. First offering: a musical "extravaganza," starring Betty Grable, Harry James, Mario Lanza. Climax (Oct. 7. 8:30-9:30 p.m.) is a thrice-a-month drama show. First offering: The Long Goodbye, with Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, Caesar Romero...
...Caesar's Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The new Sid Caesar show...
Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME...
Author Monelli, no professional historian but a veteran newspaperman, has written a biography that often verges on caricature. Obviously ashamed of his people's long allegiance to Mussolini, Author Monelli does his best to de-Caesarize Italy's 20th century Caesar. In destroying the legend of Mussolini as hero, he occasionally seems to build up another legend of Mussolini as utter boob. But with that qualification in mind, Mussolini can be enjoyed as a highly readable biography...