Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out to write a book that will last ten years. "And of how many books," he asked, "is that true today?" One notable example is this artful, bracing group of stories, Grace Paley's first and, so far, only book. Little noticed when it was published in 1959, it has since won enough readers and impressed enough critics to justify a new edition even before its first decade...
...fares for San Franciscans over 65 to 50 and, on a subsequent TV "phone-in," said he would try to get buses closer to the curb at pickup. Whether talking of hippies on the Haight ("This is not going to be any police state") or to Department Store Magnate Cyril Magnin (whom Alioto made city protocol chief), the balding, somber-suited mayor is the master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise to reduce city property taxes 20% by proposing a commuter tax-the first on the West Coast* which, if enacted, will net $14 million...
...this year: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, by three Sunday Times reporters who followed Philby's tracks for nearly a year, going back to examine his strained relations with his father (an explorer and Arabic scholar) and his record at Westminster public school and Cambridge. Author Cyril Connolly, the Earl of Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the U.S.). Written by Novelist...
Despite his limitless Cockney verve and 2,000,000-candlepower smiles, Tommy Steele's range is small, and the movie's relentless series of overproduction numbers serve to reveal his limits. Of the cast of thousands, only Cyril Ritchard as a pauperized playwright and Grover Dale as Kipps's clogging boyhood colleague come off well, largely because their appearances are confined to a few key scenes...
...their experiments, Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma and Geochemist Gordon Hodgson flashed a continuous electric arc through a mixture of ammonia, methane and water vapor at NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco. The arc simulated lightning, and the mixture was similar to the atmosphere that most scientists believe existed before life began. In addition to the amino acids, proteins, nucleotides and other life-foundation molecules that were created in previous experiments-some by Ponnamperuma himself-a small amount of an unidentified substance was produced...