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...Firman Houghton (according to the credits, he "writes poetry and plays") contributes a series of five fair poems, devolving from fractured form and bird imagery to a chair-ridden poor cousin of Gerontion, grieving over his memories. The best of the five is a childhood recollection called "Rocker." (Four poems and two stories in Audience come from the childhood kettle of perceptive innocence...
...economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...
...BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (169 pp.) -Frank A. Haskell-Edited by Bruce Catton-Houghton Mifflin...
John H. Finley, III, of Eliot House and Cambridge, was elected yesterday Secretary of the 1958 Permanent Class Committee. James R. Houghton, of Lowell House and Corning, N.Y., was chosen Class Treasurer...
This irreverent proposal is the meat of a new book called Schools Without Scholars (Houghton Mimin; $3) by John Keats, free-lance writer and rebellious parent (of three) who has spent two years studying schools, lists as his only other qualification the note that he owns a typewriter. Keats's notion is that if the public wants better education, it should form "citizens' grand juries"-school boards frequently are too secretive and P.T.A.s too social to be useful-to make calm and exhaustive investigations of local schools. Then suggestions should be made and enforced...