Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other planes, likewise loaded with scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...
Commenting on her course, Nat. Sci. 9, Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, denied "the slightest need for a change in Nat. Sci. 9," even though she "doubted" that the course meets with the recommendations of the Committee. She asserted that "no matter what the Report says, when I give a course, I give it the way I want...
...Dello Joio's 15-minute cantata performed in Kansas City was adapted from Poet John Dryden's famed A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, a poem intended, in Dello Joio's words, as "a big hymn glorifying music in the cosmic sense-the miracle of it all." Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal...
...daffy maize. Andy, now a prospering lawyer working for a West Coast aircraft manufacturer, returns to the sleepy Midwestern town of Carvel to negotiate for a plant site. Judge Hardy (the late Lewis Stone) has long since died. But Mom (Fay Holden), Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) and sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) are still settin' in the comfortable chairs of that old white house on Ames Avenue...
...sophisticated Suzy Parker loved to give reporters a hard time. She would open an interview by pointing out that the initials of her real name, Cecilia Rene Ann Parker, form an earthy word that has sometimes been used to describe Suzy's way with the truth. ("I always tell the truth, but today's truth might not be tomorrow's.") She regaled newsmen with the information that she was born in Texas (of a poor family), in Virginia (of a first family), or in Florida (of a bourgeois family). Best of all. Suzy was always known...