Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First-rate historicals are still being published, e.g., Edith Simon's The Golden Hand and Alfred Duggan's The Little Emperors (see below). But that many readers want them that good is doubtful. The big demand is for the kind of historical that neither engages the mind nor disturbs the emotions, at least not the higher ones. The historicals getting the big promotion buildups this winter have the competent and predictable plots, the busty heroines, the mixture of sex and violence that challenges the movies and television...
Chosen to lead France's 18th government since the Liberation: Finance Expert Rene Joel Simon Mayer...
...PETER SIMON Levittown...
...late Simon Guggenheim, a Jewish immigrant's son who, with his six brothers, built up the American Smelting and Refining Co. into one of the world's great mining empires, served as U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1907 to 1913. A lavish Lord Bountiful ("Have a new school on me," he would say), he set up his foundation in 1925 in memory of his son, to support "an endless succession of scholars, scientists and artists . . . [to] advance human achievement...
...written the editorial? At week's end the Barnard women had only their suspicions: the Columbia men. ¶In spite of a special faculty committee's recommendation to the contrary, the board of trustees at Rutgers University ordered two professors-Historian Moses I. Finley and Physicist Simon W. Heimlich-dismissed unless they answer the questions of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as to whether they are or ever were members of the Communist Party. Said the trustees: "The refusal of a faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness...