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...couple of dozen years. This thesis comes from no hot-eyed prophet of doom but from a coolly analytical professor of Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School named Gibson Winter; and he supports it in a well-documented book titled The Suburban Captivity of the Churches (Doubleday...
...Crowder's lively "scrambled books," which Doubleday publishes as TutorTexts, the reader starts on the first page, is then sent scurrying to widely scattered pages throughout the book. This is the "branching" technique, which Crowder developed as an Air Force psychologist while tutoring technicians in troubleshooting on 8-47 bombsights. Crowder believes that his method is better fitted to individuals than Skinner's somewhat Orwellian linear system. Crowder's method is demonstrably effective in such problem-solving areas as labor-management relations...
...AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (664 pp.)-Irving Stone-Doubleday...
...myself, 'Oh, nuts, don't drag along' "). Meanwhile he had dispatched Post Managing Editor Alfred Friendly to Rome to secure a pledge from W. Averell Harriman. U.S. roving ambassador and an early Newsweek backer, to sell Graham Harriman's 13% Newsweek holding. Then, with Doubleday & Co., Inc. his only remaining competition, Graham helped the Astor trust officers make up their minds by offering hard cash, one-third of it borrowed from a New York insurance company. Getting Newsweek may ultimately cost Graham $15 million, since he has also offered to buy the other 81,620 shares...
...performances). Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities is now running in a modest but successful production at off-Broadway's Living Theatre. On the critical front, his personality and drama have been brilliantly mapped in two books: Brecht: The Man and His Work by Martin Esslin (Doubleday), and The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht by John Willett (Methuen). In these Seven Plays, Critic Eric Bentley, a longtime Brecht devotee and translator, has put together a varied sampling of the playwright's work and written an incisive preface...