Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What No Horsewhips? But the new note could not be sustained; the cast soon slipped back into the well-worn groove The Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsy and Kolomna, who for many years has been rendering to commissars the things that are God's, described how Simon Legree (the Americans) behave in Korea. Impressive in a black robe and white headdress, the Metropolitan told his hearers that U.S. soldiers had killed from 200,000 to 400,000 Korean civilians. He even told how they did it: "They force wet leathers on their victims. These jackets get tight when they...
...apparent that the few movie stars who can act come from Broadway. Most movie moguls prefer to overlook this, but occasionally there are exceptions. One Mr. S. Sylvan Simon, of Beverly Hills, California, deserves another swimming pool for realizing that Kanin's blonde chorus girl could only be played by Miss Holliday. Her Billie Dawn is not just dumb, or beautiful; she is charming in a down-to-earth way, and is wonderfully alive. The kid has a personality as big as a house...
...something no American has ever been willing to leave entirely to the schoolteachers. Culling over their own back issues for wisdom on this and other subjects, the editors of the Reader's Digest last week republished Lines to a Daughter -Any Daughter (in an anthology entitled Fun Fare; Simon & Schuster, $2.50), written four years ago by Manhattanite Agnes Rogers...
...selection of Hanslick's criticism, published under the title Vienna's Golden Years of Music (Simon & Schuster; $3.75), shows how close, even in the heat of battle, the old critic came to the mark...
...Baby, by Simon & Schuster editors Look Younger, Live Longer, by Gayelord Hauser...