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...booming religious publishing business can boast some overnight bestsellers. A book version of Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, for example, has sold 125,000 copies since its television showing at Easter. Even third-rate spiritual self-help books sell by the hundreds of thousands. At the same time, works of serious theology-like Maverick Swiss Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's treatise On Being a Christian-are receiving widespread attention. Some interesting new books...
Most of the Morgan message is standard to all the pop self-help books that publishers have been churning out ever since Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale reaped their first millions: Think positively and keep smiling, or as Marabel puts it, "A merry heart helps melt away the troubles." Does the housewife lack goals? "Write out your philosophy of life as a woman." Is it hard to get organized? Make a list of what to do today. "A total woman sets aside time to plan carefully." Also brush the teeth frequently, and use dental floss. "Be touchable and kissable...
Even now that millions of women have paid for her message, she is cheerfully unawed by her creation. Says she: "There's nothing new in Total Woman or Total Joy. A lot of self-help books say the same things, only in different ways." She is correspondingly dismayed at the criticism that she advocates tricks for the sake of getting husbands to provide "goodies." Says she: "The word I use for a wife is not subservient but submissive. One is involuntary. But if I do something because I want to, because it gives joy, I'm not being...
Earlier this week, Seamus R. Malin '62, director of financial aid, said students financial needs would be reviewed on a case by case basis. Most students currently on financial aid will receive supplementary funding next year and wages in self-help job will go up, he said...
...rural population floods into the cities. This migration saps the cities' resources and makes them impossible to manage. The modern sector can't grow to absorb the entire population of the country. In the end, argues Schumacher, production methods adopted by poor countries destroy their chances for self-reliance and self-help...