Word: cecile
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...gardens, spread over 89 acres (36 ha), were established in 1913 on the old farm of southern Africa's chief British colonizer Cecil Rhodes, and are the most beautiful in Africa, mixing indigenous Cape species, such as fynbos, silver trees and 8,500 indigenous flowers with hundreds of thousands of imported species. On late, lazy Sunday afternoons from November to April they form what must be the world's most pastoral concert arena. Backed...
...fable, a parable, a chivalric test of manhood. Whatever its historic validity, the notion of the big shootout kept Westerns going strong for the first 70 years of Hollywood cinema. It began with the first smash hit at the nickelodeons, The Great Train Robbery, and continued with Cecil B. De Mille's The Squaw Man and John Ford's The Iron Horse in the silent era. Cimarron, a generational tale from Edna Ferber, was declared Best Picture at the fourth Academy Awards convocation...
...London 1947-1957" will display more than 100 dresses designed by haute couture's most revered names, among them Givenchy, Balmain, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli and, of course, Dior. The exhibit covers everything from suits and cocktail dresses to the undersides of evening gowns to documentary artifacts like photos by Cecil Beaton, film and audio recordings and original bills of sale. For history buffs and fashion fanatics alike, it's a must...
...reigning female star of the 40s at Paramount Pictures. She is remembered for three roles: as the somehow-impregnated bobbysoxer in Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, as Annie Oakley in the Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun and as the lovelorn trapeze artist in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth - top-billed in the movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture...
When the Rhodes committee in Zimbabwe awarded Benjamin L. Robinson ’06-’07 a Rhodes Scholarship last month, he became the eighth Harvard student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that...