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Died. Stanley Hoflund High, 65, a senior editor of the Reader's Digest and former editor of the Christian Herald, who switched from Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City...
Compulsory reading for the scholar, this third volume of The Papers is still delightful stuff for the general reader who prefers to have his Americana unbrainwashed by the biographer. He may even reflect that had Franklin got around to inventing the telephone, as well he might have, most of the fascinating odd bits would have disappeared without trace into the instrument...
Along more literary lines, another Adams House seminar will study "Literature and the Common Reader." Brower and Piers I. Lewis, teaching fellow in General Education, will direct this attempt at perceptive reading of selected poetry and fiction...
...reader may feel that he is no more likely to run across a PATHETIC FALLACY than an abominable snowman. But he will be wrong. The term was originated by English Critic John Ruskin "to describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track...
Literary status seekers are bound to give this book a brisk under-the-counter sale. It could even be useful in the schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...