Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIRST THOUSAND DAYS, Vol. I (738 pp.)-Simon & Schuster...
After Ickes died last year at 77, this mass of personal reminiscence became the object of spirited bidding. The ultimate buyers, Simon & Schuster, announced the event in tones which indicated they had accomplished a major coup. The diary is to be a massive affair, even after editing, but the publishers have run off two pre-publication printings (25,000) of Volume I, The First Thousand Days, and are at least outwardly confident that the work will be received with increasing fervor as succeeding volumes follow it to the bookstores...
...minute opera by Paul Hindemith, is more than merely clever--it is funny. The plot involves a husband (Barry Morley) who learns of the infidelity of his wife (Janet Wheeler). He shoots her and jumps out the window. At this point the lights dim, and a wise man (Robert Simon) appears. "Let us reverse this fate and make things turn back," he says. The husband jumps back in the window, and the action shifts into reverse, ending as it began. Obviously, the situation has almost limitless potentialities, most of which were realized in the performance. In the exposition, for instance...
...their intimacy with the deceased by curious slips in the course of the program; and 3) the murderer will finally be trapped into confessing his crime before a television camera he does not know to be "live." Nevertheless, the film (owing something to the superior mystery novel by Max Simon Ehrlich on which it is based) at times conveys amusingly how life looks through the other end of the television tube. And in Actor Forsythe, now playing in the Broadway hit, The Teahouse of the August Moon, it has a fine, melancholy hero...
...LYING DAYS (340 pp.)-Nadine Gordimer-Simon & Schuster...