Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things, for that matter, like politics and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the critics they keep. When Stanley Kauffmann seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards of who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know why and it doesn't matter. But when film is discussed...
...sired by a Greek named Krakos, who was at the time a poverty-stricken tourist guide but has since become richer than Onassis. Naturally, the son has some S.D.S.-type campus friends. Also hastily written in is a South American revolutionary conservatively patterned not after Guevara or Castro but Simon Bolivar...
Ultimate Values. NBC's schedule during the rarefied race for the moon ratings included James Earl Jones and Van Heflin delivering dramatic readings and Rod McKuen reciting poetry. The network also promised discussions of the moon and its ultimate value by Authors Michael Crichton and James Simon Kunen, Critic Marya Mannes and Scientist Athelstan Spilhaus...
...bidding at Christie's auction house in London started at $250,000 and went up by $50,000 leaps. Finally, the auctioneer called "Sold!" For $1,159,200, Los Angeles Industrialist and Art Collector Norton Simon had acquired a self-portrait made when Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was in his early 30s. Steep though it was, the price was a record for neither Rembrandt nor Norton Simon. The collector has already spent $2,200,000 for a portrait of the artist's son and an un disclosed sum for one of Rembrandt's common-law wife. Said...
...DOLPHIN by Robert Merle. 320 pages. Simon and Schuster. $5.95. Translated from the French by Helen Weaver...