Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...
London's first new daily in 56 years, the Sun, is not living up to its sunny billing. The purpose of the paper, announced Cecil King's editorial chief Hugh Cudlipp last August, will be "to stimulate the modernization of Britin in every sphere and to replace the disillusionment that followed our contraction as a world power by a positive faith in our future." But the paper was soon contracting like the empire. Circulation, which soared to 3,500,000 at the start, has tumbled to a depressing 1,400,000, only 200,000 above the last days...
...audience in Sanders Theater sathunched forward slightly, listening intently as Cecil Day Lewis last night began the second half of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures by tracing the history of the English street ballad...
Stevens has outdone himself by producing an austere Christian epic that offers few excitements of any kind. Its sole distinction lies in its contrast to those rambunctiously zealous camp meetings that Cecil B. DeMille used to patch together out of breastplates, flexed muscles and Persian rugs. Greatest Story is a lot less vulgar, though audiences are apt to be intimidated by its pretentious solemnity, which amounts to 3 hours and 41 minutes' worth of impeccable boredom. As for vigorous ideas, there are none that would seem new to a beginners' class in Bible study...
...FAIR LADY. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in G. B. Shaw's classic Cinderella story, set to music by Lerner and Loewe and newly dressed up for the occasion in Cecil Beaton's eye-popping finery...