Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covetously eying the Zimbalist block. Newspaper and Magazine Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse offered Mrs. Zimbalist $20 per share for her common stock, but lost interest as its market value skidded from a 1961 high of 16⅜ to 9⅜. Although he publicly denies it, West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, who got control of McCall Corp. in 1956, is reported to have thoroughly cased the prospect of buying the company. Other interested parties: ex-Senator William Benton, who made an early fortune in advertising and a later, larger one in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and a Wall Street group, represented...
MARTYN GREEN'S TREASURY OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (717 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $ 15). A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas. With charming illustrations by Gilbert and annoying sketches by a modern artist, Lucille Corcos...
ORESTES OR THE ART OF SMILING, by Domenico Gnoli (71 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $6.95). Domenico Gnoli is an artist whose pen drawings for his charming fable (about a prince who did not know how to smile) remind one a little of Cruikshank's, and a lot of Domenico Gnoli's. The book is for children and wise adults...
...object of Mr. Wilson's venom is the still unfinished sequence of novels by C.P. Snow, provisionally entitled Strangers and Mothers. The first chapter of The Old Men at the Zoo is, in fact, simply a brilliant parody of Sir Charles' eight Lewis Eliot novels; Simon Carter, the narrator Mr. Wilson has devised, is a monstrous amalgam of the smug, self-conscious, self-mocking cadence and mechanical bleakness of thought peculiar to Eliot...
Unlike Eliot's, Simon Carter's world is inately ludicrous. He is a party to a power struggle between two stock Snow characters, Edwin Leacock (the "ambitious scientist-administrator," confident of imminent success, armed for battle with "bonhomie and grin" and "four-square honesty") and his deputy Robert Falcon (old friend of Carter's, the right sort of person, arrogant, dandyish, famous soldier-explorer, with a head like a ravaged handsome Apollo"). But the struggle is not for control of a ministry or even of an industry, but for the right to guide the destinies of the London...