Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From their experience grew the Pailthorpe-Mednikoff Theory, about which they hope to write a book if the show earns them enough money. Surrealist painting, they say, affords a very effective sort of psychotherapy. They believe childhood quirks, resulting in adulthood's maladjustments, can be cleared away if the subconscious mind paints them through symbols of its choice...
Selected by the Catholic Book Club as its January choice was A Guide to Catholic Action ($2), edited by Paul McGuire and Rev. John Fitzsimons of Liverpool. Of Layman McGuire, a writer of detective stories on the side (Funeral in Eden), his publishers, Sheed & Ward, say: "There is nothing quite like him for stirring a kind of steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together...
Published at the rate of ten books a month, in first printings of at least 50,000 copies, Penguin books now sell 12,500,000 copies a year. But much bigger things are in the offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas...
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Office space in the building has been provided for all of the present members of the Government and Economics departments, who will be moved into their new quarters next year according to present plans. In addition to these offices the Center will have a library with a 200,000 book capacity, an auditorium, lounge, reading room, and eight arge seminar rooms...