Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHOLE TRUTH by John Ehrlichman; Simon & Schuster; 444pages; $10.95 CONFESSION AND AVOIDANCE by Leon Jaworski; Anchor; 325 pages...
...NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS: 1940-1971 Edited by Simon Karlinsky Harper & Row; 346 pages...
...options for programs in a smaller school, but so far GSAS administrators have allowed individual departments to handle the consequences of the applicant drop themselves. Some departments, like the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, have felt the affects of the drop sooner and more intensely than others. Eckehard Simon, chairman of the German Department, explains that he and Rosovsky worked together this year to adjust the Germanic curriculum so that the graduate department can continue to function with only three students. Under one plan, the entire program would shift to the undergraduate level with separate section meetings once...
...Simon is quick to cite the advantages of the decrease in the size of his department. "By limiting the number to three, we can always place our students. If we target at one PhD, I think we can place that one scholar," he says. Simon, like Rosovsky, is not very disturbed by the shrinking GSAS and thinks any resulting problems have solutions, found easily with a little analysis, this year's by-word at GSAS...
Baffled scientists are still unsure why the cicadas behave as they do, but suspect that it may all be a defense against predators like birds. As Entomologist Chris Simon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook writes in Natural History, when the cicadas finally emerge, it is in the shadows of dusk. They also gain protection from their monstrous numbers-as many as 1.5 million per acre. Finally, since they appear only once every 13 or 17 years, nature may have endowed them with an unlikely mathematical defense. These are prime numbers, divisible only by themselves...