Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCIS (379 pp.)-Nikos Kazantzakis-Simon & Schuster...
...Decline of Pleasure (Simon & Schuster, $5), Kerr blames not the usual scapegoat, the Puritans, but the British Utilitarian philosophers of the last century, who declared: "Value depends entirely on utility." As a practical people. Americans readily accepted this practical advice. Americans, he argues, feel that all their acts must serve some useful purpose, and when they do not, they feel guilty. Thus Americans work harder at their leisure than at their jobs, play bridge or tinker with their homes as intently as if the boss were watching. "It is in the privacy of our passing from kitchen to bedroom . . . that...
Butler arrives to discuss some new form of association that might keep the territories together. Sir Roy will get Butler's ear; but so will the bitter blacks. Said Simon Kapwepwe, acting boss of North ern Rhodesia's major black party: "We know the Federation is dead. This is the last general election...
...perhaps the most appealing and most readily understandable (if not the most profound) of the French group variously called the Anti-Novelists, the New Realists or merely the New Novelists. These tags are not very illuminating, and none could be satisfactory, because the writings of Mauriac, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute do not much resemble one another; the authors are a movement only in that each rejects the conventional psychological novel...
...Todd A. Gitlin '63 of Quincy House and New York City, president; Adam M. Hochechild '63, of Loverett House and Princeton, N. J., vice-president; Christopher A. Sims '63, of Quincy House and Riverside, Conn., treasurer; John H. Ehrenreich '63, of Quincy House and Philadelphia, Pa., secretary; and Jennifer Simon '64, of Slater Hall and New York City, executive board member...