Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HATING BOOK, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Ben Shecter (Harper & Row; $2.95). "I hate hate hated my friend." So begins this tale of a hot but brief misunderstanding between two little girls that is finally solved by confrontation: "When I wore my new dress, Sue said Jane said you said I looked like a freak." "I did not! I said you looked neatl...
...ROTTEN BOOK, by Mary Rodgers, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Harper & Row; $2.50). At breakfast one morning, in between telling Simon to eat his egg, his parents are discussing a little boy who is "rotten, absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...
WHAT IF?, by Robert Pierce (Golden Press; $1.00), is an exuberant book for the very young with splashy drawings and light verse. Sample: "What if a crocodile big as an ox/Hid in the hallway and ate your socks...
Mandel, who lives in Brussels and edits the militantly leftist weekly La Gauche (circ. 5,000), has written a number of books. His most recent is a two-volume work titled Marxist Economic Theory. Critics both in the U.S. and abroad have praised the book's fresh, undoctrinaire approach to Marxism, and the Economist felt that "no student can afford to ignore this very important work." Mandel's ideas may clash with American beliefs, but there is something absurd in the whole Mc-Carran Act notion that the U.S. must be protected from dangerous alien contamination by keeping...
...recent endeavor of Daniel P. Moynihan. Presidential Advisor on Urban Alfairs, is to outline in ten points what he hopes can become the first national urban policy. The initial draft ("Toward a National Urban Policy") appeared in the fall issue of Public Interest and a second will appear in book form this spring. These ten points quickly collapse into three major recommendations: to relocate slumdwellers, to reorganize the political and fiscal bases of local government, and to encourage more national decision-making in the federal government...