Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
Like her husband, Lorelle McCarver Hearst, who was once a Follies girl, is the darling of her father-in-law's haunted-looking eye. Like Young Bill's, the copy she writes is wired to San Simeon for personal editing by Hearst Sr. In the past year she has made two reporting trips to Europe (on the second she wrote that she only reports "what I see and am told...
Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...