Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This quest is electrically charged by Director Cyril Simon. Eleven actors sit facing the audience as ingenious lighting plays over them to orchestrate speeches and scenes like music, so that the playgoer feels that he is experiencing the thematic flow of the hero's life -lyrical, staccato, abrasive, brassy and blue. There are remarkable impressionistic renderings of states of feeling: the disembodied rush of a transcontinental train sucked through the vacuum of night, the empty-souled writhings of some Venice Beach bopniks. But in the end, the hero still seems incapable of drawing the bow of manhood...
...humorous Law No. 1 ("Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion") that put Cyril Northcote Parkinson's name right up there beside Calvin Coolidge's ("When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results"). This book now puts Historian Parkinson in the position of the comedian who has had his audience in stitches, clears his throat and says, "But, seriously...
...from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part. In the 18th century...
...illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation. Son is a bearded off-beatnik novelist who has brought home to London a monolingual Greek gamine first encountered in a Sardinian hay stack. Like son, like father. During Mama's absence, Papa (Cyril Ritchard) has had his own affair with a divorcee. "The moment my back is turned," says Mama reproachfully. "Your back wasn't turned," says Papa with injured innocence. "It was taken away...
...school where boys and girls played together in the nude. Elegantly gowned by Parisian couturiers, Claudette Colbert, who seems to have a dimple in her voice, whips herself into an understandable motherly and wifely froth. As the son, Robert Drivas is a personable rebel. The evening belongs to Cyril Ritchard, who could get laughs by reading an income tax form. If To Love had his high style, it would be to the comedy-of-manners born...