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...Austrian College Society in Alpbach, Tyrol, gives an August seminar on the theme of "Knowledge and Action." At Bad Ischl a discussion in economics is arranged from August 28 to September 2 on the subject of "The Village in Relation to Present-day Industrial Development" by the Upper Austrian Society for Economic Sciences...
...fusion reactor, i.e., a tamed H-bomb type of power generator, will never be achieved; 3) it matters not, because solar energy will eventually outshine both fission and fusion sources as man's chief power supply. These,matters settled, Dr. de Forest sounded off on the horrors of present-day radio and TV advertising. "I wish my 'children' wouldn't speak and show such long commercials," snapped he. "I hear we will face $2 billion worth of cartoons and beer ads this year. God help...
...hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys with fractured psyches. The Presence of Grace is really about...
...East to West flow of novels has swollen from a trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns...
Britain's leading sexpert and birth controller, Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 73, had the tight little isle atwitter over a recently published tome titled Sleep. In their present-day sleeping practices, declares twice-married Dr. Stopes, mother of two, Britons are going from bed to worse. One of the doctor's prescriptions for greater nocturnal bliss: "The wife [should] have a room with a double bed and the husband . . . a bedroom to himself for general use, keeping the wife's bedroom a romantic place." On bed alignment: "The head of the bed should be north...