Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "The Mitzi Gaynor Christmas Show" is a Yuletide romp with Ed McMahon playing Santa Claus and Mitzi as Raggedy Ann. Other guests include Cyril Ritchard, Tony Tanner...
...Hello, Cyril? This is your roommate Bonn. I have the most divine news. I mean, divine. You remember Modesty Blaisel And The Day the Fish Came Out? Well, now there's a raving new one called The Touchables, and it is absolutely not to be believed it's so-so, well, divine...
...Cyril, you better run if you want to catch it, because I don't think it's going to last too long. There were people actually booing when I saw it. The wretches...
This Jonah was no theoretician. He was, wrote old School Friend Cyril Connolly recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...
...life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic puritan. To Cyril Connolly, Waugh solemnly said: "He is very near to God." Told of this, Orwell sniffed: "Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions...