Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonial Theatre-Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. 106 Boylston...
...Switzerland, he was a child prodigy who published important papers on mollusks before he was out of high school, later became "haunted by the idea of discovering a sort of embryology of intelligence." In 1920 he went to work in the Paris laboratory of Psychologist Théodore Simon, a co-developer with Alfred Binet of the first successful IQ test. Poring over the "wrong" answers that children regularly gave on the tests, Piaget was surprised to see that the responses fell into patterns that differed according to the children's ages...
BOMARZO by Manuel Mujica-Lainez. 573 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...ROTTEN BOOK, by Mary Rodgers, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Harper & Row; $2.50). At breakfast one morning, in between telling Simon to eat his egg, his parents are discussing a little boy who is "rotten, absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...
...SHADOWBOXER by Noel Behn. 31 7 pages. Simon & Schuster...