Word: simeone
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...North Beach," he confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
When Publisher William Randolph Hearst at 88 shuffled off his editorial coil, his most fabulous legacy was his California barony-on-the-Pacific (375 sq. mi. in its heyday) known as San Simeon. Through the 14 Hearst newspapers last week, W.R.H.'s sundry heirs and the Hearst Corp.-good taxpayers all-announced that the 120-acre heart of their splendiferous white elephant, worth some $50,000 a year to California in taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument...
...vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...
...Christian Century's columnist, Simeon Stylites (real name: the Rev. Halford E. Luccock), observed that "some whirling dervishes of white supremacy" in South Africa and the U.S. seem to have discovered a new version of the Bible: the Jim Crow Bible. Sample verses: "Suffer little white children, and forbid them not, to come unto me [Matthew 19:14]"', "Come unto me, all ye Caucasians that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest [Matthew...
...didn't like most of them." But she liked the comparatively small, 27-room house in Beverly Hills that she now lives in. Says she: "It's quiet and cool, and 'W.R.' liked this house. It reminded him in a small way of San Simeon...