Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...
...pendants. Manufacturers are taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing ten times as many ears as he did two years ago, which...
GREAT ENGLISH SHORT NOVELS (879 pp.)-Edited by Cyril Connolly-Dial...
...Editor Cyril Connolly, who uncovers no English Candide or Death in Venice, makes an appropriate literary point in his introduction that "the great short novel is not an English form," and his selections help to prove it. None of the Great English Short Novels are great, and some of them are not even novels. But a number of them have other readable qualities that make this a pretty good book to have within reach on a night table...
...Cyril G. Sargent, Director of the Center for Field Studies at the Graduate School of Education, conferred with the committee before the final decision, and agreed to make 500 copies of the report. Sargent also told the town's representatives that he would held two meetings on preliminary reports, and would have the staff available for conferences...