Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind...
...Brother of Alfred Harmsworth, British press lord who founded the Daily Mail and later became Lord Northcliffe; Harold, who took over after Alfred's death and became Lord Rothermere; and Cecil, a onetime Member of Parliament. All are dead...
...QUIET ENEMY by Cecil Dawkins. 214 pages. Atheneum...
...Cecil Dawkins, a handsome 36-year-old woman graduate of the University of Alabama, falls within most of these categories. Her special region is the inland South and the primitive or recessive social types of the trans-Appalachian Piedmont. Within her limits, she is very good indeed...
...Suez Canal shares on the market, Britain needed $19 million to outbid other countries. Lionel de Rothschild, sucking on a grape, casually agreed to get the money for his friend Dizzy (Disraeli)-at only 3% interest. The Rothschilds helped to bankroll the empire-building exploits of Cecil Rhodes, and took home a large bundle of stock in the De Beers diamond and gold trust...