Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commitment does not have to mean ideological rigidity. All commitment is doing. It is existential, as Simon James (a pseudonym for a Columbia demonstrator) shows in a feature that appeared last month in the CRIMSON and NEW YORK magazine. He writes down his thoughts as he sits-in at President Grayson Kirk's office...
That at least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
...Simon for President. Does it really matter what the Beautiful People think? Yes, in a way. McCarthy might have brought many people to Madison Square Garden all by himself, but a mass of other entertainers helped make the night a smash: the $300,000 take provided more than a third of the entire budget for his California campaign...
BLACK SNOW by Mikhail Bulgakov. 190 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...winners are: Robert L. Adler, Government; Deborah A. Batts, Government; Anthony W. Ganz, Social Relations; Jerald R. Gerst, Social Studies; Stephen H. Kaplan, Government; John E. Larouche, Government; Richard J. Lavine, Economics; John D. Reed, History and Literature; Anne H. Rightor, Government; Michael S. Schooler, Social Relations; Ronald Simon, Government; Stephen V. Whitman, Government...