Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cyril Boynes, director of cultural affairs for CORE, said yesterday that he had done a survey of black students over the weekend and found that the vast majority knew little about the debate. He said that if black students had received information about the nature of the debate they would have supported...
...long before his death, Auden's best epitaph was written by British Critic Cyril Connolly: "Auden was for many of us the last poet we learnt by heart...
...Liberals may have more to do with style than substance. Their major policies are not strikingly different from those of the Tories (firmly pro-Europe and antinationalization), but the Liberals have caught the voters' eye with colorful candidates emphasizing local affairs. "We have changed," says Liberal Chairman Cyril Carr, "from being a theoretical, intellectualized party to a down-to-earth...
Both pop and the classics have been familiar to Wakeman since his childhood days in the London suburb of Perivale. His father Cyril was pianist in Ted Heath's big band, and little Richard at age 4½ was already taking piano lessons. At eight he was good enough to master a Clementi sonatina...
Such a role requires little more of Edward Fox than looking the part, which he does. But a platoon of expert character actors, led by Michel Lonsdale as a Maigret-like master of the hounds, and including such worthies as Eric Porter, Cyril Cusack and Delphine Seyrig, give a human resonance to the film. Author Forsyth, a dealer in stereotypes, never managed that. Best of all, Zinnemann understands what the oldtime action directors knew instinctively: violence and death do not arrive in pompous slow motion but shock us with their suddenness. Yet Zinnemann's handling of violence is tasteful...