Word: simon
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Then along came Simon Casady, 56, president of the California Democratic Council, which represents some 75,000 of the farthest-left Democrats in the state. Recently Casady, a onetime newspaper editor, has been going about California condemning Lyndon Johnson and attacking the Vietnamese war as legally, morally and politically indefensible. Warming up to his theme, he told audiences: "It takes more guts to burn a draft card than to go to war. Some people have the guts to stand and say, 'We will not fight for what we don't believe...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA by Alan Palmer. 285 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.50. Late in September 1918, the Kaiser was bluntly told by his generals that Germany had lost World War I. Why? "As a result," Field Marshal von Hindenburg explained, "of the collapse of the Macedonian front." He was stunned. He had been scarcely aware that there was a Macedonian front, let alone that it mattered. And, like the Kaiser, historians have largely ignored the mixed army of British, French, Serbs, Greeks and Italians that broke through the Macedonian mountains, forced Bulgaria's surrender, and was sweeping northward toward...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY by James Leo Herlihy. 253 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...short of meteoric. In 1961 he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, made his Met debut in Cosi Fan Tutte as a last-minute substitute for an ailing tenor, and was promptly acclaimed the find of the season. In the years since, he has sung leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata, next season will portray Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. "Fifteen years ago," says Shirley, "I probably wouldn't have been accepted by the Met. Ten years ago, I couldn't sing my favorite roles. Times are changing...
REPORT TO GRECO, by Nikos Kazantzakis. 512 pages. Simon & Schuster...