Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger canceled his contract, and Little, Brown continued to publish Howard Fast (The Proud and the Free), Anna Seghers (The Dead Stay Young), Richard O. Boyer (The Dark Ship) and Albert Maltz (The Journey of Simon McKeever). Unmoved by criticism, Little, Brown claimed to be unconcerned with an author's politics, interested only in the quality of his work...
...Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature, and make it obey." The speaker is Simon Bolivar, the South American liberator; the time, 1812; the occasion, an earthquake which, by some terrible stroke of malice, has shattered the cities controlled by Venezuela's rebellious republicans but left untouched the cities loyal to the Spanish king. A royalist monk shouts to the dazed people of Caracas that the cause of their misfortune stands before them: Bolivar. The crowd begins to seethe menacingly. Without a word, Bolivar strides up to the monk and strikes him down with the flat...
Barnes, who is a member of the permanent Class Committee, formerly served as foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and is currently executive editor of Simon and Schuster. Woltman calls him a "defender of Owen Lattimore...who has been identified as a Communist by four witnesses before Congressional committees." Barnes has repeatedly denied all alleged Communist connections...
Since that first plunge in 1947, Father Simon's annual water sports have raised enough money for him to paint the church and begin work on the chapel. "Now that the church is gay," his parishioners say, "we come more readily to pray there." Father Simon still owes some 450,000 francs ($1,300) on the construction work; it will take a good bit of diving to make that up. But he is full of faith and hope...
...Antonio, but pastoral problems are similar the world over. William Stuart McBirnie, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, doesn't have to resort to high-diving to keep a roof over his congregation's head. But his success has been as notable, in its way, as Father Simon's. Though his church was started only two years ago with 94 members, it now has 929. Trinity Baptist has built a $56,000 fellowship hall, a $6,500 youth building, a $17,500 parsonage and a goo-capacity amphitheater. A $125,000 education building is half-finished. The church...