Word: cecil
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...When Cecil Rhodes set forth the scholarship's stipulations in his will, he clearly stated that no candidate should be discriminated against on the basis of race or religion. Had Mr. Rhodes lived today, it is likely that he would have included sex in that listing. The qualities he elaborated as exhibiting "manhood" included courage, honor and concern for one's fellow man--terms that make it clear Mr. Rhodes was speaking of manhood in its generic and not in its genetic sense...
...scholarship is restricted to men according to the provisions of a legacy set in 1902 by Cecil Rhodes, founder of the trust fund supporting the scholarship. The requirements for eligibility are incorporated into a statute of the British Parliament and any changes in those stipulations must be approved by an act of Parliament...
...whose eye at 120, according to the Bible, "was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Announcing his role in a six-part TV series written by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Lancaster said, ''Moses will be very different from the version put on the screen by Cecil B. DeMille." None of that larger-than-life stuff. "My Moses will be a real man," declared Burt, whose son William plays the young Moses in Egypt. "Not a hero, not a leader, but a man who is aware of his own and other people's failings...
...play Moses, whose eye at 120, according to the Bible, "was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Announcing his role in a six-part TV series written by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Lancaster said, "Moses will be very different from the version put on the screen by Cecil B. DeMille." None of that larger-than-life stuff. "My Moses will be a real man," declared Burt, whose son William plays the young Moses in Egypt. "Not a hero, not a leader, but a man who is aware of his own and other people's failings...
Director MacDonald's choice of Robert Garringer as that "wise old fool," Lord Augustus Lorton, proved to be quite apt--and most humorous. Richard Sale was impressive as Cecil Graham, the erratic character that in so many ways resembles his erratic playwright creator...