Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show," the moviemakers advertise. "Stay home and watch television," the networks plead. "Ignore such frivolities," urge the publishers, "and read a good book!" Surveying this relentless but stimulating competition for the public's attention, TIME, beginning with this issue, launches a new weekly section that will present...
...Myles Mace carries out a threat he made recently, a how-to-succeed-in-business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...
...assets of the book life lie chiefly in its small touches--description of the weather and of Yalie breakfast conversation...
Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...
...irritating as the superficial characterization of Bogard. The author hammers at what he considers the problem of our generation: we lack conviction or concern enough to take a stand on any significant issue. The interview between Bogard and the dean forms a superfluous gift-wrapped packaging of the book's thesis. The dean declares that Bogard's is the "Indifferent" Generation...