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...abandon its traditional tongue. Now a new means of international expression is beginning to catch on, one that carries no threat to national pride: the silent, visible language of graphic symbols. To spread the word about these substitutes for words, Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss has just compiled a Symbol Sourcebook (McGraw-Hill, $28.50) of 8,000 universally comprehensible signs...
...example, can fail to understand such representational symbols as these widely used warnings against thin ice and falling rocks? But the Sourcebook also includes such arbitrary signs as plus and minus in mathematics and the clefs in music. These require preliminary explanations, Dreyfuss observes, but "you can play Beethoven in any language once you've learned the symbolic notes...
Bellocchio has compiled a sourcebook of bourgeois shennanigans and ideological muddles that illuminate the inextricable unity of personal and political consciousness. When Carlo in an opening sequence says he can't love because he is aware there are classes with better material conditions for love, he is at once rationalizing his callousness and ambition and justifying a revolution that might free him from himself...
...very human person." As its bible for Frederick Hazlitt Brerinan's scripts, the Earp show uses Stuart N. Lake's biography, whose critics may have nicked it (said one: "Fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw") but have riot killed it as a major sourcebook for Westerns since 1931. Says Sisk: "We've got to slice the truth pretty close to make it last, but we stick closely to the biographical details...
From all parts of the country the story was the same: Americans were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...