Word: randomized
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...less an issue in its way is that posed by Arthur S. Trace Jr.'s What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a chilling comparison of Russian and U.S. textbooks that pegs the vocabulary of Ivan's typical first-grade reader at 2,000 words and Johnny's at 300, owing to the U.S. mystique of "vocabulary control." Equally indignant about U.S. reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics...
...SHAME (427 pp.)-John Toland-Random House...
ASSEMBLY (429 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
WILDERNESS (310 pp.)-Robert Penn Warren-Random House...
...Single Pebble. Wilderness, Warren's latest, is another black box. To conceal the fact that it has only 65,000 words, Random House spaced it out to 310 pages by means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast...