Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Africa today the businessman's gloom is fading. Last week the big British weaving firm of Cyril Lord Ltd., which produces fine poplin for Brooks Brothers and Sulka, announced that it was closing two of its British mills and planned to replace them with a new, $2,000,000 plant in South Africa. New British investment in South Africa has jumped from a scant $11 million in 1961 to an estimated $28 million this year. Britain now has $2.5 billion invested in South Africa (v. $2.2 billion in the U.S.). In addition, increasing amounts of U.S., French...
...investigate the current state of these fine old sins, London's Sunday Times recently commissioned essays on them from a septet of England's wiliest, wittiest penmen. Nontheologians all, the Sunday Times sin samplers range from longtime agnostic and Critic Cyril Connolly, whose report on covetousness is a jaunty little tale of how a greedy antique collector comes to a Bad End, to Roman Catholic Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who rather admired the sin assigned to her. "Pride may be my own besetting sin," she wrote, "but it is also my besetting virtue. Certainly my life has been...
...centuries, guided by such rough-and-ready principals, Eton turned out 19 Prime Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school authorities on well-organized mediocrity...
...Green, Cyril Ritchard, and Claudio Arrau...
...Nature's Wonderland" is the creation of General Mills' cereal-marketing manager, Cyril Plattes, 45. A passionate woodsman who keeps a canoe stashed handy to his Minneapolis home for quick response to the call of the wild, Plattes dreamed of such a book all the time he was stuffing model cars and magic tricks into cereal boxes. "If we're going to give the kids something," says he, "let's give them something to help them rather than, the usual old blah." Forsaking blah. Plat tes commissioned Dr. Walter J. Breckenridge, director of Minnesota...