Wednesday, March 27, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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HORIZON, March 1963, $4.50.
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The current issue of Horizon is lavishly illustrated and places a particular stress on esthetic appreciations in modern society. One article, for example, is by Louis Kronenberger, and is called "Whatever Became of Personal Ethics?" It is a searching and somewhat frightening matter to deal with.
Perhaps the key article is Edgar Ansel Mowrer's "The Fifth Europe," in which the author suggests that Europe is a "new country with a common market of the mind." He says Europe is not resigned to "play Greece to American Rome" and that it envisions a bright new future on its own.
Gilbert Highet contributes an article called "Great Confrontations I: Diogenes and Alexander," the first of a series on meetings between memorable people. James Morris has written an admiring piece about Venice, and Herbert Kubly one about the celebrated MacDowell colony. "The Care and Feeding of Artists."
Other articles deal with the film director John Frankenheimer, the bright young English actress Shirley Anne Field, African culture, how artists have imagined the world as it might become, and advice from Robert Graves called "The Poet in a Valley of Dry Bones."
HIROSHIMA, by John Hersey (Bantam Classics, 40 cents).
Almost 17 years ago, the New Yorker magazine turned over the entire editorial space of one issue to print a now-classic piece of reporting by John Hersey, who had won recognition for his Pacific war correspondence and for his novel, "A Bell for Adano." The reporting was called "Hiroshima," and it has gone on to become almost a standard work.
Hersey's method was to interview survivors of the holocaust and then describe what had happened to them in the year after Hiroshima. Here is a piece of writing that should be known to all Americans.
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THE SHORT REIGN OF PIPPIN IV, by John Steinbeck (Bantam, 50 cents).
Winning the Nobel prize was good for Steinbeck in that it is sure to bring him many royalties on back books. But it was bad for his reputation, because it brought forth old novels that would better have been forgotten.—Like "The Short Reign of Pippin IV," which was Steinbeck in an antic mood, telling about how one M. Pippin Arnulf Heristal, stargazer by occupation, became a short-time ruler during a French governmental crisis.
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BARBECUE AND OUTDOOR COOKING, by Tested Recipe Institute (Bantam Reference Library, 60 cents).
Here is a handy little volume for Americans in this day of leisure and "gracious outdoor living," as they say on television. There are recipes here for steaks, hamburgers, chops, spareribs, hot dogs, lobsters, fish, chicken, venison, game hens, roasts, loins, clam bakes, corn-on-the-cob—you name it.
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ROAD ROCKET, by Henry Gregor Felsen (Bantam Pathfinder, 45 cents).
Not for the discerning, but clearly for the folks who love those hot rod movies at the drive-ins on Saturday night, is this story about a kid and a hopped-up '47 Ford. Now there's a theme of social significance!
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SEVEN MEN AT DAYBREAK, by Alan Burgess (Bantam, 50 cents).
This is a non-fictional account of how seven men parachuted into Czechoslovakia to execute Reinhard Heydrich, who was known as Hitler's hangman. It is a carefully plotted tale, with all the requisite cloak-and-dagger thrills. The Associated Press called it "a story of raw bravery hard to match in the history of World War II."
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PAPER WALLS OF INNOCENCE, by Thomas M. Livingston (Bantam, 50 cents).
The cover informs the reader that this book is not for the squeamish, that it is frank, that its language is blunt and harsh, that it has unusually intimate descriptions of things nice folks don't talk about. It's about today's college generation, we are told, and it's sure to be read by a lot more people than it really deserves.
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