Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conductor of the Super Chiefs is Coach Hank Stram, a spry, spruce little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 205 Ibs.) who looks like a Cheshire cat, dresses like Cecil Beaton, talks like Otto von Bismarck and operates like Jimmy Valentine. "Every team," he says, "should have its own style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince...
...Some of the best known among the 40 martyrs: EDMUND CAMPION, a debonair Jesuit scholar who was described by William Cecil as "one of the diamonds of England," and was patronized by high nobility, even for a time by Queen Elizabeth. Campion's treatise Decem Rationes (Ten Reasons), in which he challenged Protestants to religious debate, led to his death by hanging. In 1886, Campion was made a beatus, a preliminary step to canonization that all 40 have attained...
Although selected by region, Rhodes Scholars come from Ivy League schools in wildly disproportionate numbers. The expensively educated young man, Cecil Rhodes believed, would best fit into "Oxford circles...
...Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist at all. In a typically brief but suggestive essay, significantly entitled The Modesty of History, Borges rejects "the influence of Cecil B. DeMille" and self-serving nationalism, asserting that the truly essential events of history have probably gone unrecorded. Everyone knows the paltry date upon which Columbus first set foot in the New World, but who knows, Borges asks, the really important and prophetic moment when Aeschylus added a second actor...