Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting lineups: CRIMSON Visitors Lewis 11:59 Dear Simon C 3565 Dear Karson avc Dear Sack pic Dear Friedman abc Dear Hooper 400 Dear Glinn jl Dear Green 6A Dear Bell naps Dear Leavitt prex Dear Stein dunce...
...AMERICAN PAST (476 pp.)-Roger Butterfield-Simon & Schuster...
...American Past is history gift-wrapped for readers who ordinarily find the subject unattractive. A picture story of U.S. politics and personalities from 1775 to 1945, the book is presumably (at $10) a carriage-trade item, but Publishers Simon and Schuster expect it to sell like crêpes suzettes...
...times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake...
...poetry, "My Heart Is a City," by H. Lawrence Osgood, ranks foremost for its gently tripping pace and for its neat imagery. "Point of Departure," by John Ashbery, and "Anatomy of Degradation," by John Simon, both lack the polished impact of Osgood's brief offering. The poetry necessarily should provide the magazine's continuity-breaks in the utter absence of anything resembling commentary on contemporary issues. One wouldn't even want William Becker's excellent discussion of John Millington Synge to reach a more sensational conclusion than that the Irish playwright led the modern field in "unselfconscious realism...