Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas list of recent religious books: The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy (Page; $3) with a foreword of appreciation by Actress Mary Martin. It all went back to her meeting with India's Prime Minister Nehru, who asked her how she managed to keep so fresh during the long run of South Pacific. By reading something different, she answered. Whereupon he recommended the autobiography of Gandhi, in which Gandhi discussed Tolstoy's book...
...from Thomas Mann, which consists of a polite refusal to submit an article. This might be construed as a gag, except that Mann's name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly out of place in an otherwise professional production...
Ward had also learned how to stretch his financial shoestring. He got experts, who became interested in Year, to do part-time work for little pay, wangled many free pictures, and, for 1951, got Historian Arnold J. Toynbee to write a foreword, simply by writing and asking...
...this Williams zealously eschews. He announces he will do so in the foreword to his book: "Nine-tenths of our lives is well forgotten in the living. Of the part that is remembered, the most had better not be told; it would interest...
...Winter wrote the foreword for Hubbard's bestselling book, became medical director of the Dianetics Research Foundation, and tried to guide it along what he considered sound scientific lines. Now, in A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (Julian Press; $3.50), he thinks he made a mistake. Founder Hubbard, says a disillusioned Dr. Winter, became more & more "absolutistic and authoritarian"; the foundation became less & less interested in research, more interested in spreading the word. Last winter Winter flounced out. He was finding orthodox dianetics "ritualistic and sterile...