Word: caesars
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...startling thing about the Lang affair is that he was not purveying pornography, or even mildly racy novels. He was merely introducing his students to the Poetics by Aristotle and The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli as an aid to their study of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Lang, 55, a ten-year teaching veteran, is a man determined to challenge his students, pitted against a school system that wants him to take things easy...
...Tenth-graders can handle Aristotle," insists Robert Squires, president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English. Indeed, whether or not Aristotle is mentioned by name, most high school discussions of Julius Caesar, Othello and other tragedies build on the characteristics of tragedy originally set out in a few pages of the Poetics. Such fundamental questions as "Is Brutus or Caesar the hero of the play?" and "Why would an honorable man like Brutus join in the conspiracy against Caesar?" are good Aristote lian questions. Nor is Machiavelli unfathomable in an age well versed in political manipulation. Merely asking...
...down, the heat of the debate lingers. Correspondence and controversy continue, and the letters-diverse as they may be-all share a particular passion, not only for points of conscience and politics but for theater. They are like one of Brenton's Romans, who starts to address Julius Caesar, "I speak from the heart . . ." "A disgusting, fashionable habit," Caesar reminds him, an aside bound to cut any passionate British theatergoer right to the quick...
...defenseless men and women." Many jurists, added Circuit Court Judge Irving Kaufman, will be reduced to writing letters asking "how they might tell their children that they cannot afford to send them to college." Other spokesmen have been somewhat more restrained. "We ask judges to be purer than Caesar's wife, but we don't pay them what they are worth," says Harold Tyler, a partner in a New York law firm (and former district judge) who now heads an American Bar Association (A.B.A.) committee on federal judicial compensation. "They are the guardians of our Constitution...
...season's most savory surprise is English Provincial Cooking by Elisabeth Ayrton (Harper & Row; $16.95). Tradition au contraire ("In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce"), well-flavored sauces and gravies have graced English food since the Roman occupation. (Pastry, too, was introduced by Caesar's men.) English cuisine, even more than the French, is most notable for its regional diversities, which Ayrton explores and exalts with expertise and charm. She tells how to confect Wiltshire lardy cake and Yorkshire hot wine pudding, chickens as lizards and rum roast of lamb (for the sailor...