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...booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public at $6.50 each), and there are plans to translate the booklet into five languages (German, French, Japanese, Italian and Spanish). The study, however, received a negative review from at least one interested reader. TASS, the Soviet news agency, derided the report as just a "colorful booklet" and denounced Weinberger for "gushing a barrage of irresponsible verbiage." -By James Kelly. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/ Washington
...Ehrlichs should have spent more time developing this theme of the esthetics of life for our kin. Photos of extinct species, like the once-most numerous bird, the passenger pigeon, and of others now vanishing would appeal to the altruistic feelings of the reader. Yet the written examples create remarkable images and inspire compassion. Too bad James G. Watt will probably never see them...
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) once described the short story as "the literature of submerged population groups." It is a regional definition with an old-fashioned thump of authenticity. O'Connor, born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, was no innovator. His stories lowered the reader directly into the weedy, half-lit world of Irish town life...
This tone of pedantic tolerance oozes from the book. Although billing the volume as a scholarly treatment, Wolpe does not rely on his theories to retain the reader's interest. Nearly everyone has some needless anxiety--a fear of heights or of strangers, of small dogs or public speaking. But Wolpe ignores these more common fears, packing his chapters instead with a parade of human oddities which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon...
Masquerading as a self-help book, and claiming to be a scientific treatise, Our Useless Fears is more like a guided tour of the San Diego zoo. The human menagerie paraded across its pages might benefit from Dr. Wolpe's theories; but for the average reader--neither traumatized by sunrise nor terrified by frogs--the book is as useless as the fears it describes...