Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cecil Garland, a former Las Vegas croupier who now runs a general store in Lincoln. Mont.: "For too many people, the ideal vacation has been determined by how much scenery they could see blurred across their car's windshield. Now more people are looking simply for a quiet, soul-healing, unwinding experience. They are not looking for the super-duper deal anymore. People are beginning to appreciate their natural resources more. The wilderness has a way of making friends for itself...
Barbra plays Daisy Gamble, a latter-day Brid?y Murphy whose soul shuttles from 18th century England to contemporary New York. Arnold Scaasi designed her knockout New York wardrobe; Cecil Beaton did her up for the London sequences. What more could a girl want, except maybe a movie? Instead, she has Scenarist-Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's drab romance of Daisy and Doctor Marc Chabot (Yves Montand). The girl's especuliarities drive Chabot mad-do you hear?-mad, mad, mad! But ultimately he learns that scientists must leave the infinite alone, and Daisy goes back to her star...
...Philadelphia at a meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Ceramist Gene Haertling and Electrical Engineer Cecil Land explained the secret of the ce-ramic's unusual behavior. Tiny crystals in the ceramic-packed some 100 million to the square inch-respond to electric voltage much as iron filings align themselves in a magnetic field. High voltage causes many of the crystals to change their orientation; low voltage affects only a few. By reversing the voltage, the change can be erased. That accounts for the color change; the ceramic is transparent only to a narrow range of light frequencies...
...idea of a magazine was suggested by Jonathan Blount, then 24 and an ad salesman for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. "All right," said the Shearson, Hammill adviser. "There's Cecil Hollingsworth behind you, and he knows about printing. And Ed Lewis over here is a financial planner for First National City Bank, and he knows financial planning." Joined by Clarence Smith, a salesman for Prudential Insurance, the foursome began getting together at the end of their regular workdays. From publishing talent up and down Manhattan's Madison and Sixth Avenues, they picked up ideas and expertise...
Following the conclusion of the book, there is a short epilogue, entitled. "An Epiphanic Conclusion of Some Important Matters." In it. Cecil Brown addresses the character of the book's title and raps about some of the themes presented in the tale itself. He has a few words for those who would try to interpret these themes too sharply from their own point of view, denying them the freedom that the book demands...