Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such English intellectuals as Critic George Orwell and Editor Cyril Connolly, the bi-monthly Partisan Review is the voice of the U.S. intellectual Left. If so, it is a small (circ. 6,500) and often confused voice. Once Communist, it shifted to quasi-Trotskyite, is now vaguely Marxian (but anti-Stalinist), and more literary than partisan. In its 13 years it has published such U.S. writers as John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Gertrude Stein...
...forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...
...People (at least in Britain) are becoming less intelligent, reported London Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt. It is an old story, said Sir Cyril, that the intelligent well-to-do have fewer children than the poor. The real hitch: "Among the far more (numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation...
...DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize Physicists Enrico Fermi (University of Chicago) and I. I. Rabi (Columbia University); ex-Los Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, bearded by the press and attempting an explanation of British tolerance of demi-bared bosoms in the cinema: "Perhaps it is because we have a longer past. We know that often in our history women have worn low-cut dresses, and it doesn't shock us that Jane Russell looks more like a woman than any woman ought to look...