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THEY'LL CUT OFF YOUR PROJECT by HUEY PERRY 256 pages. Praeger...
Jonathan sees everything as a reflection of himself, and demands that Tina center her world around him. Famous Author George Praeger (Frank Langella) tries to assert his dominance by refusing to get involved. He sees himself as a cool, invulnerable man irresistible to women-but he is unable to deal with the women he attracts. Instead of enveloping Tina like her husband, he warns her repeatedly to keep her distance...
Movement and Metaphor: Four Centuries of Ballet by Lincoln Kirstein. 290 paqes. Praeger. $17.50. A delightfully idiosyncratic history of classic dance by the co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet. It minutely and wisely analyzes 50 landmark ballets, from Balthasar de Beau-joyeulx to George Balanchine. Kirstein's prose is suave and evocative. The stunning black and white illustrations, many of them never before reproduced, are a far cry from the expectable salon-photography narcissism...
They should certainly avoid Richard Zorza's The Right To Say We: The Adventures of a Young Englishman at Harvard and in the Youth Movement (New York: Praeger, paper $2.25). Whatever things Zorza's book may have going for it, facts are not among them. Culminating all the sloppy inaccuracies, the book is dedicated (inexplicably) to the city manager of Cambridge, whose first name Zorza gets wrong. Although the most smoothly written of the three strike books, Zorza's book alternates from wallowing in romanticism about Youth and Togetherness to trampling through the most incredibly arcane details of moderate student...
...result, Oh! Sex Education! (Praeger; $7.95), is a small journalistic masterpiece of rueful perception. With her first book, Mary Breasted takes her place among the Joan Didions, Gloria Steinems, Gail Sheehys-the journalists of grace-note disillusionment, all those sharp young women who look at their fellow Americans with the sad-eyed vision of little girls whose dolls were broken at an early...