Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN HORIZON (596 pp.)-Edited by Cyril Connolly-British Book Centre...
...years. Since there was always more red ink than red blood in its circulation (peak figure: 10,-ooo), Horizon owed much of its vitality to two men: 1) Angel Peter Watson, the millionaire son of a milkman, who blotted up some $20,000 in losses; and 2) Editor Cyril Connolly, the intellectual son of an army officer, whose pudgy face once reminded a reporter of "a cross between Beethoven and Edward G. Robinson...
Metaphysical Pingpong. Modern Italian Short Stories, compiled by Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare...
...CYRIL OSBORNE, M.P. House of Commons London
...burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years' War (in which France lost her Canadian colony and most of her money), La Pompadour was responsible, as Critic Cyril Connolly says, for "aligning her country with all that was reactionary in Europe against all that was progressive...