Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would get no academic credit, would even have to pay $15 for the privilege of getting out of bed just as on any school day. Nonetheless, 17 signed up for the three-hour morning course in the history of philosophy, 26 more for logic in the afternoon. Exclaimed Pupil Sylvia Schaffer, 14, last week: "I would do this all year long. It's lots of fun." Says Teacher Ansley: "We aren't shoving this down the students' throats. The kids have insisted on it. They won't get any credits from these courses. They...
...French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered her face with cold cream, put her hair in "irons" and her head in a beauty-lift "hammock." For a long, gentle interlude, the gentleman turned to his sexy-voiced dress designer, Patricia Neal, who was having her own problems with Robert Alda, a rapacious playboy...
...protracted than painful. Preparations had taken weeks. Two ditches, each two miles long, were gouged through the velvety lawns and underbrush of the 7,000-acre estate to carry the cables needed for TV cameras. The Queen herself watched, over and over, a training film starring bright-eyed, pretty Sylvia Peters, one of BBC's ablest announcers, in which Sylvia demonstrated the five best ways of making a TV speech: 1) from memory, 2) from notes, 3) using a Teleprompter, 4) combining notes and Teleprompter, 5) reading it in its entirety. The Queen selected No. 4. She wrote...
Songs of Love (Sylvia Syms; Decca). Songstress Syms attacks a few of these throat huskers (He Loves and She Loves, Hands Across the Table) with a beat so limp that she suggests a woman in search of a paycheck instead of a passion. In her better moments (Alone Too Long, Can't We Be Friends?), her foggy, appealing voice is that of a nice girl who is very, very anxious to set her boudoir in order...
...Sylvia Wright's book has a misleading title. Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts is not about the Joys of Christmas; it is a book of social criticism disguised under a title calculated to con the unsuspecting Christmas shopper...