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Normality, says the psychologists, is to be judged by your adjustment to your social environment. If the psychologists are right, then the big books of etiquette are, next to success stories, the most neurosis-making books current. For nowhere else can you find advice more irrelevant to the modern mode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

In her own whimsical way, Margaret Fishback backs this thesis, and Safe Conduct is her try at etiquette suited to the times. By profession, writer of institutional advertising for Macy's department store, light-verse writer on the side, she is liveliest in razzing those dexterous dopes who figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

For seven generations the U. S. people have been moving to the city* but as their bodies moved cityward, their day dreams moved in the opposite direction. Year by year nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Deans and Professors of the University also provide an exceedingly touchy problem. There seems to be an opinion current among some of the older members of the Faculty that any distinguished teacher with an interest in religion has the right to hold forth in morning chapel. But too often aptitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRIT OF DEVOTION | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

¶ San Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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