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...Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Many other publishers have made cautious changes in wording. The 1973 edition of Modern Biology, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, stated: "Scientists do not doubt that organisms living today descended from species of previous ages." That sentence was omitted in the 1977 revision. The 1969 text said, "Modern man has probably evolved from primitive, more generalized ancestors." The 1977 version: "Darwin was suggesting that humans may also have evolved from less specialized ancestors." A Holt, Rinehart editor says: "If you're not listed in a state, you can't sell books in a state...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...college life, politics, and "wit and wisdom"--is littered with information that will surprise or amuse you, pique your anger or imagination, or perhaps make no impression whatsoever. You will discover things that you may or may not wish to know, like the genesis of the tradition of shouting "Rinehart!" and the goldfish swallowing fad, which was originated in the Harvard Union on March 3, 1939 by Lothrop Withington Jr. '42. If kiosks, unionizing shuttle bus drivers and the proposed Third World center make you wonder what passed for controversy at Harvard in generations gone by, The Crimson Anthology will...
Reviewing Kael's latest book of movie reviews, When the Lights Go Down (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $18.95), in the Aug. 14 New York Review of Books, Adler not only calls the volume "worthless," she proceeds to incinerate Kael on the gravest imaginable grounds for a New Yorker writer: vulgarity, shoddy writing and sloppy thinking. Adler admits that until recently she had been an admirer of Kael's because "she was the critic everyone knew and talked about." But on closer analysis-something Adler feels that no one has accorded Kael's writing in years-a different conclusion...