Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...MODERN MOVEMENT by Cyril Connolly. 148 pages. Atheneum...
...lively and influential British critic Cyril Connolly was recently commissioned by the London Sunday Times to compile and comment on a list of the hundred key books of modernism in literature. The result (see box) has all the marks of becoming a standard teaching aid in British and U.S. universities. Connolly's hundred also provides a formidable check list against which adult readers may test their knowledge of the literary forces that have helped shape the contemporary mind...
Strange Lines. In 1962, a group of radio astronomers led by Cyril Hazard tried a subtle tactic in an effort to pinpoint a strong radio source that searchers with optical telescopes could not identify. Pointing the Parkes, Australia, 210-ft. dish antenna toward the source, known only as 3C 273,* Hazard's group recorded the precise time that its signals were eclipsed, or blotted out, by the sharp leading edge of the passing moon and the time when they reappeared from behind its trailing rim. Because the position of the moon can be accurately calculated for any given time...
...British agents trying to bump off Communist agents and vice versa. Loyalties are obscured because you don't know who's working for whom; sympathies are initially nonexistant because the good guys are every bit as ruthless as the bad. Control, head of British intelligence, is well done by Cyril Cusack with his tea pots and easy acceptance of Cold War expediencies. He says to Leamas (Burton): "Our policies are peaceful, but our methods can't afford to be less ruthless than our enemies'--occasionally we have to do wicked things. The West is never the aggressor, but since...