Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simon Garnier, Charlie's dignified but bibulous old grandfather, is the only really complex character of the book. Unlike the others he is something more than just an amusing quantity, and Goodman has drawn him deftly. Once a Missouri Supreme Court Justice he retired from the bench with a characteristic comment: "the people is a great beast." When Charlie comes to visit his grandfather, Old Garnier is still dispensing snorting judgments upon our modern culture from his 18th-century mansion overlooking the Mississippi. One of the cleverest portions of the book describes his approaching senility. But it never approaches...
PREFERRED RISK (248 pp.)-Edson Mc-Cann-Simon & Schuster...
...last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue tonight and I'll pray over it." Dick went back to boning up on Volume 23 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (vegetables, vitamins, wines), The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery and Simon's A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy...
...THEATER New Revue in Manhattan Catch a Star! (music by an and Phil Chang; lyrics by Paul Webster and Ray Golden; sketches by Dannyand Neil Simon) got the new Broadway season off to a respectable but unexciting start. Perhaps half its numbers have at least their pleasant moments- a far from disgraceful average for revues, but a dubious recommendation for audiences...
...Robert Simon, 42, of Saone, France, was turned down cold by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago when he applied for permission to give a high-diving exhibition to raise money for his parish. Since 1947, high-diving Pere Simon has given some 35 performances in Europe (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), the proceeds of which have rebuilt his war-damaged church, erected a dispensary and brought nursing sisters to his village. Simon announced his intention of trying his luck in another diocese. "It is true I am an athlete," he said, "but above all else I am a priest...