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...though often anonymous examples of our building art." Two years ago, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington sifted through a decade of Plowden's work and organized a show of 75 remarkable black-and-white photos. Now these same pictures have been collected in a handsomely designed and printed paperbound book entitled The Hand of Man on America (Chatham Press; $5.95). In a subtle, ironic way, Plowden's shots tell more about the nation and its manifest values than reams of reports, plans and environmental statements...
...Boston, an outfit called Infact Systems Inc. has put out a paperbound "complaint kit" with tear-out forms declaring that this is my SECOND complaint, then THIS is MY APPEAL TO A THIRD PARTY. Another booklet, published in New York, lists the presidents of a wide range of companies, with their addresses, to whom the complainer is advised to address his complaint (the theory being that the complainer gets more action if he goes right to the top). But in this day of the form reply, that advice can be dubious. One unhappy patron who discovered bedbugs in his hotel...
Remember back in 1958 when Danny and the Juniors sang with the fervor of true disciples, "Rock and roll will always be/It'll go down in history?" Well, a new book called The Sound of the City (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, $6.95 hardbound, $2.95 paperbound) is the history they were singing about. There have been other chronicles about the rise of rock, but they have been either too scattershot or too personal. The Sound of the City manages to be both enthusiastic and exact. It is the best history of rock yet published...
Last Frontier. Cheap girlie magazines have always catered to prurient interests, but Evergreen is not of that ilk. It was started in 1957 as a paperbound book, publishing such unknown authors as Edward Albee, James Purdy, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg. In 1964, it was turned into a slick-paper magazine with striking art work and lots of color; its scatology is elegantly framed. With a circulation of some 160,000, the magazine recently changed from a bimonthly to a monthly...
With the approval of the Council and the Catholic hierarchy, the dialogues were first tried out last year in Worcester, Mass., have since been extended to more than 40 communities. The Seattle area has 85 groups that meet once a month, following the discussion plan outlined in a paperbound guide by Norgren and Qreenspun...