Word: selfhelp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half women), and will slowly swell to a full four forms by adding one new class each year. For two years there will be no mixed classes, and after that only in some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession...
...CENTRALISM is FOR YOU," and form the core of this uneven but intriguing first novel by Alan Harrington. The doctrine of "Centralism" and what it does to Hal Hingham gives Author Harrington, a Manhattan public-relations man, a slingshot with which to launch provocative pebbles at the panjandrums of selfhelp, the positive thinkers, the conformists, and the problems of 20th-century "adjustment...
...Emphasis has shifted to nonfiction that can be tailored to sell. Says one publishing executive: "We decide first of all, is there a market for this book, then second, whom could we get to do such a book and do it well." Many of these market-tested, selfhelp, how-to-do-it, picture, memoir, fad and stunt books are written by clergymen, dietitians, gardeners, gourmets, radio comedians, diplomats, psychoanalysts, and almost anyone but writers. The amateurs, of course, are provided with outlines, editors and, in many cases, ghosts (a ghost may earn from $1,000 to $5,000 a book...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...