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...Goes There?-A Primer on Communism (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy hosts an examination of Communist ideology and methods...
...other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches her big pink blanket grow smaller and smaller while she grows bigger and bigger. Finally Jane is made happy again when threads from...
...latest book, The Mind as Nature, a modest little primer for teachers, Eiseley argues that the mind is as mysterious as nature, and that its intuitions are as significant as cold empirical conclusions. "I have been labeled a mystic," writes...
...world of My Little Red Story Book consists of white children of an upper-middle-class family living in the suburbs with an apple tree, a pony, a two-car garage and heaps of toys. But in Detroit public schools, where this pre-primer is standard for first-graders, 46.5% of the children are Negroes living in city slums...
...American books. In Egypt 50% of publishers' lists are books of U.S. origin. In Iran a Persian edition of Dr. Spock's baby book was hard to get published because the printers kept snitching page proofs to take home to their wives. In other countries the primer style of U.S. textbooks (often none too popular at home) is highly esteemed for self-teaching. This vast foreign market is now being tapped by a remarkable enterprise called Franklin Publications...