Dartmouth Authors

William P. Fowler '2l, Sunset Wings. Peter A. Randall, 1981. 96 pp. A collection of over 90 poems, 12 of them new, the rest chosen from Fowler's four earlier volumes of verse, now out of print. A skillful craftsman, particularly in his mastery of all forms of the sonnet, Fowler is a poet of New England. He writes of New England's mountains, Monadnock and Washington, of Jobildunk Ravine, and of course of Dartmouth College. But the part of New England he describes with a special grace is the sea shore, and that special breed of men who wrest their living from the sea.

Thomas H. Moss and David L. Sills '42, eds., The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Implications. New York Academy of Sciences, 1981. 303 pp. The printed record of a conference on the T.M.I, accident held in April 1980 and sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. Among the 70-plus contributors are not only physicists and nuclear engineers but also sociologists, utility executives, government officials, journalists, and psychologists. More than just an account of the accident and its immediate consequences, the book, say the editors, "seeks to generalize the complex, populationthreatening accidents that can and indeed do occur in many segments of our technology-based society. It thus also is about accidents in general."

Norman Fiering '56, Moral Philosophyat Seventeenth-Century Harvard: ADiscipline in Transition. University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 323 pp. Fiering argues that "the remarkable flourishing of moral philosophy in the eighteenth century" in fact had its roots in the 17th, when the study of ethics as a professional discipline finally outgrew the long dominadon of Aristotle and substituted instead a much broader conception.

Teresa M. Marin-Padilla, M.D., Notesfrom a Traveler. Fox Publishing Corporation, 1981. 163 pp. A researcher in pediatric pathology at .the Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Marin-Padilla is also obviously a talented.and sensitive writer of fiction. Like many first novels, this book, one senses, is deeply autobiographical, the author's portrait of the M.D. as a young woman, so to speak. But the author s creative imagination ultimately shapes the raw materials of autobiography into a richly textured work. In short, a novel. As Professor Emeritus Harry Schultz notes in his introduction, read "with' alertness and patience," the novel "presents the truth beautifully: a daughter shows honestly what is and what has been without ceasing to be a loyal daughter."