Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared June 28, bring up a real question: Is Mr. Enthoven able to translate into figures or code to be fed into one of his machines the very human factors of ingenuity, perseverance and judgment to be found in the crew of a ship like the U.S.S. Charles P. Cecil? I, for one, think not. 1984, here we come! (MRS.) ELIZABETH F. MCCLANE Bayside...
MOVIE PRODUCERS In his own inner eye, Producer Samuel Bronston sees himself as a kind of extraspectacular Cecil B. De Mille. He is earnestly trying to promote that notion, splash by splash. And he seems to be succeeding...
...prologue and four concentrated scenes. Still he could not decide on the music. Then he heard Liszt's B-minor sonata. To most classicists, the piece is sadly second-rate, but it was the answer to Ashton's yearning. He assigned the orchestration to Humphrey Searle, got Cecil Beaton to do the sets, and plunged into the choreography...
...dwells in a world of beauty, yet no one has ever called her pretty. She likens other women to swans and skylarks, but finds herself described (by such an expert as Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair...
...Cudlipp, and to burly Cecil Harmsworth King, 62, boss of the huge Mirror Group, it was obvious that the Pictorial needed some juicing up. Not that they wanted to change its pro-Labor politics, or any of the staples that have so long attracted its working-class readers-sports, animals, crime, anti-Establishment articles and lots of sex. But there would have to be more, and the answer was to season the Sex-and-Sensation recipe with a third S-for Significance...