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...years, Journalist and Lecturer Amy Bjork Harris, 56, are now out with OK II under the slightly cautious title Staying OK (Harper & Row; $15.95). The effort is partly a restatement of the first book's discussion of the therapy known as transactional analysis and partly a collection of homey tips on how to apply transactional insights to daily life. Says Amy Harris: "This might be thought of as a recipe book, as opposed to a book on the theory of cooking...
...several grains of salt. In all editions, the first paragraph of the book begins, "You know more than you think you do," and the next paragraph says, "Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense." A friendly and homey prose style, at once humble and authoritative, has convinced millions of mothers that he is an author who can be trusted. "He put everybody in a more laid-back attitude toward raising children," says Memphis Pediatrician James Hughes...
...equally level-headed. National Review, isn't content to annex only John Kennedy for the Republicans now that the Democrats have slipped off the left side of the earth. He wants it all: Football, drinking, girls (but only the cute ones who wash and wear bras), plus homey things like the flag, religion and the family, which President Reagan has already claimed. If Hart is to be believed, conservatives have irrevocably cornered the market in pleasure commodities. Liberals, particularly those who support affirmative action (which Hart, taking a cue from hero William F. Buckley, Jr., calls "reverse discrimination") are introspective...
Flashiness would only intimidate the clients of the Chatham County Social Services Building in Pittsboro, N.C. This structure was designed by Architect Norma DeCamp Burns of Burnstudio, Raleigh, N.C., to look like a house and convey a homey atmosphere for the staff as well as citizens who come for assistance with Medicare, food stamps and other public welfare programs...
...exactly homey, the mood that Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes has created in the interiors and the charming sculpture garden of the Dallas Museum of Art is certainly inviting, festive and duly dignified all at once...