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...UCLA--Walton, Lee, Curtis, Wilkes, Farmer; Memphis State--Finch, Kenon, Robinson, Buford, Laurie. 43. On the front was a circle with "The City" and the Golden Gate Bridge encircling the player's number. On the back, the number was emblazoned inside of a cable car. 44. Throw up. 45. Cyril Baptiste. 46. Jackie Meehan. 47. Jackie Twyman. 48. The Big O. 49. 3 [football, hoop and track...
Professor D.D. Dorfman of the University of Iowa, writing in the September 29 edition, stated that the late Dr. Cyril Burt fabricated data in support of his theories on the inheritability of IQ. Dorfman's article is the latest in a series of attacks on Burt's evidence since he died...
...inherited The Waste Land. The legacy was intimidating. Not only did Eliot's masterpiece seem to leave scorched earth for subsequent poetry, but the apocalyptic dry rot it portrayed cried out for desperate measures beyond the range of literature. Spender and his contemporaries, including Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cyril...
...current prevailing view of the public schools derives from writers like Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell, who were as unhappy there as budding authors typically are anywhere. The Old School Tie is a useful corrective. While glossing over none of the system's barbarities and stupidities, Gathorne-Hardy points out its virtues as well. True, the rigid conformity imposed on young boys did not encourage incentive or initiative. Peter Ustinov's master at Westminster wrote of him in 1939: "He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all costs...
...where its horrors actually happened. One of the key locations was the Austrian prison camp of Mauthausen, which was used to simulate Auschwitz and Buchenwald. "It was a frightening place," says Berger. "The average life span of a Jew there was 48 hours. At one point in the filming, Cyril Shaps, a totally professional English actor of Jewish descent, was putting on his pajama-striped prison garb in the barracks at Mauthausen; suddenly he said, 'I don't think I can go on.' He was destroyed when he realized, as we all did, that we would have...