University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 18, 1964
Page 3
BOOK REVIEWS
A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN ART, by Erwin O. Christensen (Mentor, 95 cents).
A beautiful paperback, from cover through the last page, is now available for anyone interested in art, and there is a growing band of devotees. Erwin O. Christensen did a history of western art for Mentor several years ago, and this is an excellent accompanying volume.
There are nearly 400 photographs and illustrations, not merely paintings but sculpture, pottery, architecture and so on. The paperback is an original, a fact which gives it special interest.
Christensen ranges from the Egyptian tombs and Grecian sculptors through the Italian Renaissance and up to the structures of Frank Lloyd Wright. The author is director of publications of the American Association of Museums.
PRESIDENTIAL POWER, by Richard E. Neustadt (Signet, 60 cents).
It is of interest that Christensen shows the relationship of great art to political, religious and social events. These relationships help to make the book even more meaningful.
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Books sometimes become part of current events. "Presidential Power" did. It was widely discussed as having bearing on the concept of the presidency held by the late President Kennedy, and Neustadt was special consultant to Kennedy in the days before Kennedy succeeded President Eisenhower.
Neustadt, head of the department of government at Columbia College, holds that the American presidency is no place for a political amateur. He analyzes the celebrated 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, treats crises in the Truman administration (the Marshall plan, the Korean War, the McArthur affair and the steel seizure, notably), and in the Eisenhower administration (particularly the Little Rock crisis).
Besides being significant the book is readable and meaningful as we examine the performance of a new president and consider those others who would like to be the man in the White House.
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Usually known only as great playwright and discerning essayist, George Bernard Shaw also wrote short stories. Most of these are from his early years, and they provide illumination into this amazing man. Excellent woodcuts are by Sam Salant.
TALES, by George Bernard Shaw (Capricorn, $1.45).
The stories include "Aerial Football: the New Game," "The Emperor and the Little Girl," "The Miraculous Revenge," "The Theatre of the Future," "A Dressing Room Secret," "Don Giovanni Explains," "Beauty's Duty," "Still After the Doll's House," "The Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas," "Death of an Old Revolutionary Hero," "The Serenade," "A Sunday on the Surrey Hills" and "Cannonfodder."
In today's dramatic civil rights movement it is enlightening to return to the spiritual ancestors of Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins and read their history-making writings. This excellent paperback makes such a return possible.
THE ABOLITIONISTS, by Louis Ruchames (Capricorn, $1.65).
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Louis Ruchames has included works by the key figure of abolitionism in America. These include the noted pioneer Benjamin Lundy; the Massachusetts fire-eater, William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator; the New England Anti-Slavery Society; the Quaker poet. John Greenleaf Whittier; a novelist, Lydia M. Child; Gerrit Smith; Elijah P. Lovejoy, the martyr of Alton, Ill.; Angelina E. Grimke, the lady from South Carolina; Theodore Weld and James G. Birney, and the celebrated writer and orator, Wendell Phillips.
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KU Pershing Rifles Win Drill Honors
tending the seventh annual regimental drill meet at the University of Wichita.
First place for Exhibition squad drill and second place for exhibition individual drill was awarded to Company E-7 of the Pershing Rifles from KU recently.
The military honor group was at-
Individual awards went to Kent McCain, Akron, Ohio, senior, first place in drill-down for advanced cadets; John Straham, Salina, for the high individual score in the regimental rifle match, and Thomas Hewitt, Topeka freshman, who placed third in freshman cadet drill-down.
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