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Many of his words have now been assembled in David Smith, by David Smith, edited by Cleve Gray (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 176 pages; $22.95). The book offers the illuminating experience of hearing a sculptor speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
Critics of the public schools, particularly in urban ghettos, have long argued that many children fail to learn simply because their teachers do not expect them to. That proposition is effectively documented in a new book called Pygmalion in the Classroom (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). The book tells of an ingenious experiment involving several teachers at a South San Francisco grade school who were deceived into believing that certain of their students had been spotted as "late bloomers." Eight months later, the chil dren's academic abilities showed dramatic improvement...
LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...salvaged notes and firsthand memoranda, Evelyn Lincoln assembled a 1965 memoir, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, that gave readers a faithful slavey's-eye view of the boss she loved and served as personal secretary. Her second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving motions. He walked strangely with his body bent slightly...
Such similarities are the gist of a provocative book by English Author Antony Jay called Management and Machiavelli (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.; $4.95). Jay, a Cambridge-educated amateur historian, has an unabashed enthusiasm for Machiavelli. As a former television writer and editor for the British Broadcasting Corp. who has become an independent television consultant in London, he is fascinated by management. "The history of General Motors over the past 50 years," he says, "is far more important than the history of Switzerland or Holland." Mixing Machiavelli and management, Jay discovers some interesting and instructive corollaries between states and corporations...