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...plane too advanced for the shoddily prepped reader. But this is only occasional. Most of the book is well within any literati's grasp. In fact by the time the 349th page is finished, the Autobiography of William Carlos Williams constitutes a useful and very easy to digest primer in one school of modern American literature...
...leadership of Methodist Dr. John R. Mott and Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. They decided to begin by commissioning a history of the subject, to be prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...
...Jews themselves, Rabb Philip Bernstein, president of the Centra Conference of American Rabbis, wrote an article for LIFE last fall. Now expanded and published in book form, with wood cuts by Quaker Fritz Eichenberg, Wha the Jews Believe (Farrar, Straus & Young; $1.25) is a lucid and readable primer of Judaism from a cheerfully humanistic point of view...
...imperative that Radcliffe girls be recognized as girls." Helpful information of this sort is put forth every year in the Annex Red Book, a paper-bound booklet that serves as a primer to incoming 'Cliffedwellers. Freshmen also find out how to play the game of "Getting Along at College," "Meeting People," and "Marrying a Harvard...
...portrait seems to owe less to the Supreme Court's Holmes than to Life with Father's Clarence Day. Understandably, the only real conflict in Holmes's later years, i.e., the clash of legal ideas, hardly lends itself to dramatization. But Lavery skimps even on a primer-level presentation of his subject's life work. Having emptied the character of all but the vaguest sense of purpose, to say nothing of greatness, he fills it largely with a butter-soft stuffing of homely anecdotes...