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Book Reviews: Spacks, Patricia The Female Imagination. New York: Avon Books, 433p, $2.45, 1976

Book Reviews: Spacks, Patricia The Female Imagination. New York: Avon Books, 433p, $2.45, 1976

Other Books on Broadcasting

Howard Poteet's Published Radio a Television, and Film Scripts:A BibLioqraphy (Troy, N.Y.: Whiston Publishing Co., 1975—$15.00) Richard Adler (ed.) Television as a Cultural Force (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976—$15.00/4.95, with single pbk copies available from the Aspen Communications program office in Palo Alto (see order form enclosed)) Jethro K. Lieberman and Neil S. Rhodes' The Complete CB_Handbook (New York: Avon Books 29553, 1976—$1.75, paper) Fredric Stuart's The Effects of Television on the Motion Picture and Radio Industries (New York: Arno Press, 1976—$23.00) Ben Armstrong and LaVay Sheldon (eds.) Directory of Religious Broadcasting : 1976 (National Religious Broadcasters, Box 2254R, Morristown, N.J. 07960—$15.00, paper) MARC Newsletter (Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center, 191 West Huntington Drive, Monrovia, Calif. 91016) Spectrum (Billy Graham Program in Communications, Graduate School, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill. 60187) WACC Journal (Eckart-Verlag, D-4800 Bielefe...

Six Fantasies: Theme and Style

Six FantasiesTheme and Style William H. Green (bio) The Master Key, by L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by F. Y. Cory. Introduction by David L. Greene and Douglas G. Greene. Hyperion, Conn.: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1973. $3.75. Reprint of the 1901 Bowen-Merrill Company edition. Sailing to Cythera, by Nancy Willard. Illustrated by David McPhail. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. $5.95. Sweetwater, by Laurence Yep. Illustrated by Julia Noonan. New York: Avon Books, 1975. $1.25. Previously issued, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Mr. Death, by Anne Moody. Foreword by John Donovan. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. $5.95. Into the Unknown. Edited by Terry Carr. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1900. $6.50. Ladies of the Gothics. Edited by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1975. $6.95. Critics of children's books are expected to be moralists. Probably this is inevitable. There are books which, regardless of one's politics, are evidently harmful to young readers—books which countenance cruelty, cowardice, or despair. But if morality becomes the chief concern of criticism, literature is degraded to propaganda, critics to would-be censors. Whatever harm immoral books may do to readers, poorly written books do greater harm to the practice of literature—especially if they are applauded for the mere moral correctness of their themes. The best children's books are unsurpassed in their precision of style and richness of imagination; and the best children's fantasies, in particular, evoke a miraculous sense of completeness, of word-magic raised to sacramental perfection. Magic is our birthright. If we disinherit ourselves for moral correctness or transitory social causes, we lose. Happily, of the six fantasy books reviewed here, two exhibit the lucid style, smooth pacing, and imaginative completeness characteristic of classic fantasies such as the Alice books, The Hobbit, and the tales of Narnia and Oz. Not surprisingly, one is by the creator of Oz himself. The Master Key, subtitled "An Electrical Fairy Tale," is a reprint of L. Frank Baum's 1901 novel about a boy named Rob who accidentally invokes the Demon of Electricity and is given electrical marvels to show the world: a ray which induces unconsciousness, [End Page 288] small tablets which contain one day's nourishment, and an anti-gravity device shaped like a wristwatch. With these devices, Rob flies foolishly to a cannibal island, barely returning in time to receive three more marvels. Turn-of-the-century American ambiance pervades the tale. Full of optimism and industry, Rob soars across the Atlantic wearing only walking clothes and a small anti-gravity device, later to return and conclude that there is no place like home. While abroad, Rob displays an American willingness to intervene in local politics. Of course, he always intervenes on the good side, but his notions of good and evil are frankly ethnocentric: "I believe it's about time I interfered with the politics of this Republic," he tells himself in Paris. "If I don't take a hand there probably won't be a Republic of France very long and, as a good American, I prefer a republic to a monarchy" (p. 136). Such lambent faith in Truth, Justice, and the American Way may seem passé, and Baum's stock characterizations of cannibals and Turks might draw charges of racism if he wrote today; but it would be ungracious to blame the author of such a lively and good-natured fable for occasionally reflecting the values of his age. And the ending of the story, where Rob returns the Demon's gifts because he has seen how unready men are to control such powers, transcends optimism and addresses a warning to our gadget-ridden nuclear age. Solid meals, it proposes, are more satisfying than energy pills—happy homes more important than transoceanic tours. Finally, however, it is not the moral which makes the tale successful, but rather the vividly evoked wonder, the eerie realism of Rob's soaring—almost the reader's soaring—asleep through night skies, with only the stars above and the sea beneath him. A reprint of the 1901 edition, with large print and strong illustrations, the book is at...

Ethical Guidelines for Administrators: Comparison with Whitehall

1971). See also Uphoff and Ilchman (eds.), Political Economy of Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972). 16. Alvin Gouldner, Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (New York: Avon Books, 1971), pp. 215-216. 17. Concerning the relationship between the new public administration and other developments in the social sciences, see Larry Kirkhart, Toward a Theory of Public Administration, in Marini, op. cit., pp. 127-164. For similar developments in allied disciplines see Henry S. Kariel, Creating Political Reality, American Political Science Review, Vol. LXIV, No. 4 (December 1970). See also John G. Gurley, The State of Political Economics, American Economics Review, Vol. LXI, No. 2 (May 1971), and Robert L. Heilbroner and Arthur M. Ford (eds.), Is Economics Relevant? A Reader in Political Economics (Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Goodyear Publishing Company, Inc., 1971). 18. Wesley E. Bjur, The 'New' Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (March/April 1970), p. 202.

The rights of suspects : Oliver Rosengart Avon Books (959 Eight Avenue, New York, New York 10019), 1974, 122 pp., paperback—95¢

El estudio asume que sin una fundamentación teórica cualquier tratamiento penitenciario está lejos de poder comprender el objetivo sobre el que se desarrolla y, además, poder replicar los resultados. Reconociendo que el tratamiento penitenciario actual está lejos de ofrecer unas buenas prácticas para lograr la reinserción social del penado, una experiencia de acciones reconocidas internacionalmente como buenas prácticas, en el ámbito terapéutico y educativo en el ámbito penitenciario es el proyecto de la unidad terapéutica y educativa de Villabona (Principado de Asturias, España). Esta necesidad de fundamentación ha llevado a desarrollar sobre un soporte de noción de conducta la propuesta de cambio como proceso, lejos de introducirlo en el ámbito de la intimidación e incorporando 2 procesos en su comprensión —corresponsabilidad y cogestión— y un mecanismo para la adaptación —confrontamiento—. El trabajo concluye que otra prisión es posible, donde el tratamiento penitenciario no busque una adaptación competente y comunitaria al contexto penitenciario que da paso a la subcultura carcelaria. Se asume, finalmente, la necesidad de que este planteamiento se concrete tanto en una normativa legal como en un desarrollo de esta a través de un reglamento.The study assumes that without a theoretical foundation any penitentiary treatment is far from being able to understand the purpose on the one that develops and, also, the results are able answer. Recognizing that the penitentiary treatment is far from offering a few good practices to follow to achieve the social reintegration of the convict, a recognized experience, internationally as good practices, to level therapeutic and educational in the prison is the project of the UTE of Villabona (Asturias, Spain). This need of foundation has gone to developing on a support of notion of conduct the offer of change as a process, far from introducing it in the area of intimidation and incorporating two processes in their understanding (co-responsibility and co-management) and a mechanism for adaptation (confrontation). The work concludes that it is possible another prison, where the penitentiary treatment does not look for a competent and community adjustment to the penitentiary context that gives step to the prison subculture. It is assumed, finally, the need of that this realized approach make concrete so much in a Legal Regulations as in a development of this one across a regulation.

On the Failure of Indian Education

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesWalter Blair, el al., The Literature of the United States (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1966), p. 53.John Barth, The Sot Weed Factor (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1960), chap. 21.Roy Harvey Pearce, “The Significance of the Captivity Narrative,” American Literature, XIX (March, 1947), p. 11.Ibid., p. 3.James Fenimove Cooper, The Deerslayer (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1952), chap. 7.Ibid., chap. 27.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miscellanies, in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. by Edward Waldo Emerson, I (Concord Edition; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904), p. 53.Ibid., p. 62.Ibid., p. 53.Ibid., p. 62.Ibid., p. 572.Henry D. Thoreau, The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. by Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen, XI (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949), p. 84.Thomas Carlyle in Past and Present in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, vol. 10, book III, chap. 1 (Centenary Edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896–1901) comments on the importance of the image-maker: “The Hatter in the strand of London, instead of making better felt hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheel's; sends a man to drive it through the streets; … ”.William Ellery Channing, Thoreau the Poet Naturalist, ed. by F. B. Sanborn (rev. ed.; Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1902), p. 336.Henry D. Thoreau, The First and Last Journals of Thoreau, ed. by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, I (Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905), p. 32.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. by Horace E. Scudder (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1893), p. 164.Montgomery Bird in his first Preface to Nick of the Woods justifies his portrayal of Indians on the grounds that “he wages war … upon women and children, whom all other races in the world, no matter how barbarous, consent to spare … .” When some people objected, he reaffirmed his stand in the preface to his revised edition of 1881. He drew Indians as “they existed,” he said, “ignorant; violent, debased, brutal.”.Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, in The Writings of Mark Twain, II (Stormfield Edition; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929), p. 199.Mark Twain, Roughing It, in The Writings of Mark Twain, III (Stormfield Edition; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929), p. 132.Leslie Fiedler, The Return of the Vanishing American (New York: Stein and Day, 1968), p. 76.Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins (New York: Avon Books, 1969), p. 36.Charles E. Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (New York: Random House), p. 9.Ibid., pp. 111–112.“Ralph Nader Comments on Indian Education,” Integrated Education, VII (November-December, 1969), p. 4.“Suicide Among the Blackfeet Indians,” Bulletin of Suicidology (Fall, 1970), pp. 42–43.U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969), p. 18.

Underground NewspaperWhat’s It All About?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesMichael Spencer, “Why Is Youth so Revolting Nowadays?”, Wilson Library Bulletin, 43 (March, 1969), pp. 640–647.Ibid.Diane Dikovy, “The Way It’s Going to Be,” Saturday Review, 52 (February 15, 1969) , pp. 83–89, 102ff.Mark Kleiman, High School Reform: Toward a Student Movement, Chicago Students for a Democratic Society, 1967.Diane Dikovy, How Old Will You Be in 19841, New York: Avon Books, 1969.Mary Benedict, “Freedom of the High School Press?”, Today’s Education, 56 (December, 1967), pp. 64–67.

On translating Chekhov

ANTON CHEKHOV: THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Translated by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis. (Minnesota Drama Editions.) Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1965; pp. 126. Paper $1.00. ANTON CHEKHOV: THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Critical material selected and introduced by Henry Popkin. (The Avon Theater Library.) New York: Avon Books, 1965; pp. 191+unpaged Bibliography. Paper $0.50. ANTON CHEKHOV: PLATONOV, A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS AND FIVE SCENES. Translated by David Magarshack. (A Mermaid Dramabook.) New York: Hill & Wang, 1966: pp. 195. $4.50. ANTON CHEKHOV: THE THREE SISTERS. Translated by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis. Critical material selected and introduced by Henry Popkin. (The Avon Theater Library.) New York: Avon Books, 1965; pp. 175+unpaged Bibliography. Paper $0.50. CHEKHOV: THE MAJOR PLAYS; IVANOV, THE SEA GULL, UNCLE VANYA, THE THREE SISTERS, THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Translated by Ann Dunnigan. Foreword by Robert Brustein. (A Signet Classic.) New York: The New American Library of World Literature, 1964; pp. xxii+380+un‐paged Bibliography. Paper §0.60. THE OXFORD CHEKHOV, VOLUME III: UNCLE VANYA, THREE SISTERS, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE WOOD‐DEMON. Translated and edited by Ronald Hingley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964; pp. xix+343. $10.00. TEN EARLY PLAYS BY CHEKHOV. Translated with an Introduction by Alex Szogyi. (A Bantam Classic.) New York: Bantam Books, 1965; pp. 314. Paper $0.95.