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RECOVERY by JOHN BERRYMAN 254 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...world is to learn how to survive. These teaching fellows know many things, and yet when they hear a smart new idea they are willing to move a lot of furniture to fit it in. In a class one day our teaching fellow was telling us about Dr. Levi-Straus who thinks that not only can everything in life be known by studying words, but by studying the order of words. I reminded this teaching fellow of the philosopher's remark, that "one picture is worth a thousand words." He must have seen the truth in my observation because...
...most ballyhooed of the new arrivals is Robert Payne's pop biography, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has reissued Hitler's Secret Conversations ($19), the Führer's wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler biographers have acknowledged as an invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like...