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...SHAME (427 pp.)-John Toland-Random House...
ASSEMBLY (429 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
WILDERNESS (310 pp.)-Robert Penn Warren-Random House...
This week Trace stated his case in What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a comparison between Russian and U.S. non-science textbooks. He argues that humanities are "dangerously neglected" in U.S. schools and that Russian children get "vastly more thorough training" in those subjects...
...Single Pebble. Wilderness, Warren's latest, is another black box. To conceal the fact that it has only 65,000 words, Random House spaced it out to 310 pages by means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast...