Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spouted eager advice while a barber shaved him or a waiter served lunch have been banished from the inner chambers. For intimate guidance, Mendès now relies on only three disciples-Jean Soutou, 43, and Claude Cheysson. 35, who are intelligent Quai d'Orsay types, and Simon Nora, 33, who is something of a financial wizard. Even emissaries specially summoned from as far away as Indo-China find themselves closeted with the young aides for lengthy interrogations, then see the well-briefed Premier himself for an hour or less...
Racing through the script are Jack Palance as Simon, a power-mad, eye-rolling (but strictly second-rate) magician who tries to discredit the growing body of Christians with rabble-rousing and tricks; Paul Newman as Basil, a pagan silversmith who designs a frame for the cup; Virginia Mayo, the sorcerer's apprentice, who divides her time between dressing up the boss's act and running up Basil's metabolism; and Pier Angeli, a wistful, loving Christian who finally wins Basil for herself...
...Adams and the gossipy nature of a Gideon Welles, but, unlike those famed governmental diarists, he lacked the sense of standing witness to history in the making. Harold Ickes was primarily interested in great events in so far as they soothed or ruffled Harold Ickes. Nevertheless, The Lowering Clouds (Simon & Schuster; $6), third published volume of Ickes' sometimes fascinating diary, does make a contribution to historical accuracy: it should go far to correct the deep public impression that Harold Ickes was a lovable and forth right "old curmudgeon." He reveals himself as a devious old egotist...
AMERICAN SCIENCE AND INVENTION, by Mitchell Wilson (437 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $10), tells in 1,200 pictures and clear, knowledgeable text the mighty success story of U.S. gadgeteers, scientists and inventors, from Ben Franklin and his kite to the nuclear fission boys...
John D. Schubert '55 of Dunster and Harrisonburg, Virginia. (Romance Languages); Jonathan Steinberg '55 of Eliot and New York City (Economics); Bennett Simon '55 of Adams and Brooklyn (Classics); Thomas A. Troyer '55 of Adams and Omaha, Nebraska (English); Robert B. Wheaton '55 of Lowell (History); and Thomas A. Woodard '55 of Adams and South Nashville, Tennessee (Philosophy...