Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military academy, which he attended, as a metaphor of his homeland, and in reciting what he sees as the horrors of life at school suggests what he thinks of life in Peru. More sophisticated is The Opoponax (Simon & Schuster) by France's lissome Monique Wittig, 31. A disciple of Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French fanatic whose "objective" novels systematically reduce people to objects, Author Wittig has composed a synoptical illusion that describes how a little girl grows up by assembling on the page a collage of things...
These older, reckles lyrics excited me because their contagion was evident; ears attuned to them gained appetites for "poeticism" and a lot of earnest, though not always men leapt up to supply them. Paul Simon (Garfunkel's partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin...
...slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (12 million copies sold in all editions), Shimkin has helped to build Simon & Schuster, in which he is a partner, into one of the nation's heartiest publishers specializing in hardback books...
...combine "the creative art of publishing with the science of commerce." Last week he completed a deal that, by combining his assets, makes him stronger than ever. Without spending a penny of his own, he arranged to buy out 69-year-old M. Lincoln Schuster, his partner in Simon & Schuster, and merged that company into Pocket Books, Inc. To do this, Shimkin first had S. & S. take $2,000,000 from its operating funds, pay it to Schuster for his half of the company. That gave Shimkin control over 100% of S. & S. stock, which he then turned over...
Shimkin thus follows an industry-wide trend toward consolidation between hard and soft publishers. The new enlarged S. & S. will be in a more powerful position to bid for blockbusting authors, whose contracts have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. In combination, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books will be better able to assure authors of bonuses for softback reprint rights, while the publishing firm will be able to get those rights without paying fat fees to its hardback competitors...