Word: doubleday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doorman or a maid or something--someone to set off the shrieking and flyings ashtrays. That, or a tauter script. After the play's rambling dialogues, its climactic scene in which Scooper leaves his blind mother talking to a wheelchair while he and Dierdre run off (to Doubleday?) leaves you cold...
...Being a Christian by Hans Küng (Doubleday, 1976). A work of fairly serious theology that became a big seller, this book by Küng, liberal Swiss priest and thorn in the side of the Vatican, offers a revisionist review of such Christian dogmas as the Resurrection...
...Birth of the Messiah by Raymond E. Brown (Doubleday, 1977). A top Catholic New Testament expert's close analysis of the story of Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke, with some surprises, e.g., he doubts Jesus was born in Bethlehem...
...independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since 1972, the books have sold more than...
...violence. They picked their subjects from every walk of life and all parts of the country; 2,143 family members were interviewed. Out of this study, which will be published in the fall as an eleven-chapter book titled Behind Closed Doors: A Survey of Family Violence in America (Doubleday), they offer a dismal statistical portrait of American family life. Highlights...