Word: geoffrey
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...neighbors in La Jolla, Calif., British-born Margaret Burbidge is an attractive woman in her 40s with a quiet, self-effacing manner. To her fellow scientists, she is also one of the foremost astronomers in the world, the wife of Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, and the explorer of stars, galaxies and quasars. Yet, for all her success, the female half of the scientific team of B² (B square)-as their colleagues call the Burbidges-has faced many of the difficulties usually experienced by women who dare to venture into the male-dominated world of science...
Daughter of a chemist, Mrs. Burbidge developed an early interest in the stars. At the University of London, her work with telescopes so impressed her professors that they appointed her acting director of the school observatory. There, she caught the eye of Geoffrey Burbidge, who was also studying at the university. They were married six months later...
Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley. 576 pages. World. $19.95. A potpourri of minstrels and melody that manages to make the songs of old Provence seem as delectable as poulet a la proven∧ale. So too with musical greats from Palestrina and Purcell to Wagner and Webern, in a handsome treatise that is informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz...
Both the album and the group were received with less than overwhelming enthusiasm, and Atlantic, their recording company, rushed out another album, One Way or Another. Still, no success. Finally someone down at Atlantic wised up, and for Cactus's third album, Restrictions, they brought in Geoffrey Haslam, one of their best staff producers, and Eddie Kramer and Dave Palmer, two of the finest engineers in the business...
...British D16 (equivalent to the CIA); the letters stand for Secret Intelligence Services. Also known as "The Old Firm," as referred to by British Ambassador Sir Geoffrey Jackson, when he said he had been relying on it to secure his release from the Tupamaros in Uruguay...