Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIMON RUBIN Brooklyn
...GLORY (154 pp.)-Pierre-Henri Simon-Harper...
This is a novel only because French Author Pierre-Henri Simon chooses to call it one. Actually, it is an antiwar tract and one of the most eloquent in recent years. It is the author's bitter J'accuse, telling all Frenchmen and the world that France, first in Indo-China and now in Algeria, has given its soldiers ignoble roles in shameful wars. Says the hero's friend: "You can't say that war's our industry, for it nearly always costs us more than...
Honey & Sweetness. Author Simon knows well the dilemma that France and the West face-that the Communist intelligentsia "approve any crime, if the infallibility of the Red Pope is in question," while they eagerly denounce the West's slightest misdemeanor. In this situation, a counterstrategy is hard to find. In the end, the author, like his hero, decides that the highest morality is the individual's. But if all soldiers become Larsans, there would be no armies. His act of conscience is understandable and moving, but it offers no real answer to the problem buried...
...muscular army of 10,000 descended on Stuttgart, pitched their tents in public parks, and ate the city out of fresh fruit. Their weapons were the Indian club, the skipping rope and the trampoline; their uniforms were the leotard, the sweatshirt, and the bloomer; their hearts were uncompetitive and simon-pure. It was amateur night all week. In Stuttgart's commodious Nechar Stadium (capacity 90,000) and in 15 overflow halls around town, the third world festival of amateur gymnasts, the Gymnaestrada (the "way to gymnastics"), was under...