Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon & Schuster; 432 pages...
...been unofficially mentioned as a runner-up for nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just...
...family grew wine grapes in the Pyrenees. Simon was educated in Paris and then worked at becoming a painter. He served in the Spanish Civil War and later in the French cavalry. Captured by the Germans in 1940, he escaped and joined the French Resistance...
...professors, James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein, argue that Lombroso was on the right track: no one is born a criminal, but many are born with "constitutional factors" that predispose them to serious crime. "There is mounting evidence," the professors write in their new book Crime and Human Nature (Simon & Schuster; $22.95), "that on the average, offenders differ from nonoffenders in physique, intelligence and personality...
...sensitive to sulfites. Their reactions range from hives, nausea, diarrhea and shortness of breath to shock, coma and brain damage, as well as death. Asthmatics appear to be at greatest risk. The FDA estimates that 450,000 asthma sufferers, or 5%, are sulfite sensitive. For many, suggests Immunologist Ronald Simon of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif., the problem stems from sulfur dioxide, which is released by the sulfite solution. The fumes cause spasms in the bronchial tubes, preventing oxygen from getting into the lungs and blood. Notes Dr. Simon: "Asthmatics are exquisitely sensitive to sulfur...