Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents apply for a spot months before their children are born. Or even earlier. The Empire State center in Farmingdale, N.Y., received an application from a woman attorney a week after she became engaged to marry. Apparently she hoped to time her pregnancy for an anticipated opening. The Jeanne Simon center in Burlington, Vt., has a folder of applications labeled "preconception...
Editors: Geoffrey Simon, Mark Brazaitis, Jessica Dorman...
...PAUL SIMON (D-IL) Institute of Politics...
...Monica has seen all she wants to. To think that he was available all along! A spinster who lives comfortably in Paris, she has been half in love with Simon since the days when the three girls shared a flat in London and he came around to court pretty Richeldis with her "kind, insensitive eyes." It requires very little effort -- a nice French lunch with a glass of Beaumes de Venise at dessert -- to acquire Simon and launch a trite, messy affair...
What fun A.N. Wilson has with these foolish mortals. Love Unknown is his tenth novel, and his command of caustic social comedy seems complete. He is pitiless in describing the cliches of adultery so eagerly embraced by his lovers -- Simon's nattering about whether his many "meaningless" affairs have rendered him unfit for nobler passion, Monica's inflating to Wagnerian grandeur her demand that he leave his wife. Meanwhile, domesticity grinds on relentlessly, and it is the urgent and unpredictable demands of his large, eccentric family that finally defeat Simon...