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What is all this-a cautionary tale about the dangers of sedation or just one more peeping tome about show business? Certainly the latter, though it was written by a TV actress, Jacqueline Susann, who insists that the book is practically a kinescope of show-business life as she has seen it lived. If so, it would seem that Author Susann has spent most of her time watching people swallow Seconal, slurp Scotch and commit sodomy. Somebody does one or the other on almost every page, and a large crowd has gathered to watch the exhibition. Dolls is firmly established...
...PLAZA. It was built by "the Astors, Astorists, Astorites, the Vanderbilts, Plasterbilts and Whoeverbilts, who wanted a place to dress up and parade and see themselves in the great mirrors. So they sent for the finest master of the German Renaissance style, Henry Hardenbergh, and he did this-a skyscraper but not the monstrous thing the skyscraper was to become later. He still managed to keep it with a human sense. There were Ravenna mosaics on the floor, but they covered them up with rugs. A lot of it has been spoiled by inferior desecrators...
...extraordinary entity this-a thing that has a soul. And as for the soul, what an extraordinary house it finds itself in! Who can say what it costs it, moment by moment, to accommodate itself to this residence, how much writhing and bending, folding and pleating are required of it? It was not made to live inside a thing; if it does so, under pressure of necessity, there is not a single element of its nature to which violence is not done...
Hardly a week goes by without some subscriber asking a question like this-a question that is all the more pertinent because TIME makes no effort to "scoop" the daily press...
Seldom do Americans eagerly read such a book as this-a modest, 285-page exposition of abstract political theory called The Managerial Revolution. But few books of political theory pack such a punch as this does. Even its slyly casual subtitle promises to tell them something they want desperately to know-What Is Happening in the World...