Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater piece Romulus owes a calculable debt to Cyril Ritchard, who makes of the emperor a mock-serious dandy, and whose drolly mannered and expertly timed delivery accounts for most of the evening's laughs. Playwright Vidal's contribution to the Duerrenmatt script seems to consist of topical gags scavenged from the headlines without any visible link to the historic past. Romulus asks finally to be judged as a play of ideas when it only toys with ideas. Overlooking the fact that it takes two to make dialogue but only one to make war, Romulus clings...
...colored residents (less than 1% of the population), a recent survey reported that 90% of Englishmen interviewed believe that immigration should be restricted. Industrialists welcome the newcomers, since they are more mobile, industrious, and willing to "work dirty." Yet a widespread prejudice, expressed by Tory M.P. Sir Cyril Osborne, is that the West Indies, which sends Britain up to 80% of its colored migrants, are "exporting their unemployment...
Beckett's message must be picked up in fragments, like shards around a ruin. He is an elegiac host at civilization's wake, taking for his text Cyril Connolly's "It is closing time in the gardens of the West. From now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair." The quality of Beckett's despair assays high; it is the quantity that is suspect. There is so much of it, and most of it is unearned. His characters are not scarred by life...
...rule of retired General Lucius DuBignon Clay, 64, giant Continental Can Co. will don civvies again. General Clay, newly named as President Kennedy's personal representative to Berlin, turned the chief executive officer's post over to Continental's strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) President Thomas Cyril Fogarty, 57. A whip-smart packaging expert who has been at Continental for 32 years, Fogarty will keep mobilized the battle units that General Clay set up to overcome rival American Can Co.'s sales dominance in the can industry. But aides expect the jovial Fogarty to relax Clay...
...Cyril J. Staud (vice president, Eastman Kodak Co.), K2DQ