Dartmouth Authors
George Winchester Stone Jr. '30, ed., The Stage and the Page: London's "Whole Show" in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre. University of California Press, 1981. 251 pp. A collection of essays by 12 scholars of the 18th-century London theater. As a corrective to the modern tendency "to separate critical concern into two channels one seeing dramatic text as all important, the other seeing stage presentation as most basic," Stone writes, "the series of essays in this volume suggests the value of conjoining the two streams of critical enjoyment under the controlling thought that . . . the stage and the page contributed to a varied 'whole show' of an evening delightful to an audience in all its components, and to be read afterward with the performance readily recalled to mind."
Edward H. Bishop '34 and David E. Bishop '62, eds., Perinatal Medicine: Practical Diagnosis and Management. AddisonWesley, 1982. 304 pp. Intended "to serve as an update in perinatal medicine for family physicians," this book was produced by father and son, the former a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, the latter a family physician with an emphasis on obstetrics and neonatal care in Littleton, New Hampshire.
Harvey Yorke '39 and Liz Doherty, TheCandidate's Handbook for Winning LocalElections. Harvey Yorke, 1982. 168 pp. A practical manual showing candidates who run for local, non-political office on elected bodies how to undertake such crucial activities as organizing, raising funds, filing for office, submitting financial reports, recruiting volunteers, generating publicity and advertising, and conducting get-out-the-vote campaigns. Sample materials and checklists to assist candidates, campaign managers, and election committee members are also included.
Donald T. Oakes '44, ed., A Pride ofPalaces: Lenox Summer Cottages 1883-1933. The Library Association of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1981. Softcover. 83 pp. A commemorative volume, A Pride of Palaces contains 60 photogaphs printed by the contemporary photographer Walter Hutton Scott from the original glass plates and film negatives of Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1928) which now reside in the archives of the Lenox Library. The opulent piles of stone and brick which once served as the rural seats" of such as Andrew Carnegie or George Westinghouse are mostly gone now, either razed or converted to more mundane uses, but Lincoln's fragile turn-ot-the-century images have survived to provide a stunning record of America's "gilded age," when the new-rich sought "fashionable ways to spend their money, fashionable places in which to be seen, fashionable individuals with whom to associate," and when the summer "cottages" of Lenox, Massachusetts, vied with those of Newport, Bar Harbor, or Southampton to present a "lavish spectacle of a wealthy society bent on proving itself the equal of anything in Europe."
Stearns A. Morse '52, Basalts and PhaseDiagrams: An Introduction to the QuantitativeUse Of Phase Diagrams in Igneous Petrology. Springer-Verlag, 1980. 493 pp. Intended for advanced students of igneous petrology, this book applies the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the origin of igneous rocks and shows how phase diagrams can be used to explain the changes which occur in magmas during their formation and crystallization.
Sigmund G. Ginsburg '59, Management:An Executive Perspective. Robert F. Dame, Inc., 1982. 457 pp. Ginsburg is an iconoclast: Because "the managers of today and the MBA's produced in our schools seem to have lost or never acquired the entrepreneurial spirit, the zest for risk-taking and bold decision-making," our corporate organizations have become "to an alarming degree, . . . fat and sassy, lazy and sloppy, tolerant of mediocrity and merely getting by," thus reflecting the image of our "permissive, 'laid back,' mediocre level of aspiration society." But Ginsburg is also a constructive iconoclast: his book challenges executives to re-examine not so much their practices as their fundamental attitudes. If only managers can be brought to understand that "there is more to management than numbers, computers, and quantitative analysis."
William Carpenter '62, The Hours ofMorning. University of Virginia, 1981. 71 pp. Carpenter's vein is meditative. He is a philosophical poet intent on recording the fragments he has shored against our common ruin of time and mortality, culling out, as he writes, "From the possibilities of time, / Irrational details." He is sometimes difficult to follow as he slips at will from the real to the surreal or from his own voice to that of a persona. His erudition is extensive: He obviously knows art, art history, ornithology, Eastern mysticism, and the Jungian psychology of the unconscious. But those are the trapping of his poetry. "There is so little at th' center of things," Carpenter observes, and so he sets about the poet's self-imposec quest for order and meaning by putting at the center of things not-isms or-ologies but the basic, common human emotions loneliness, awe, perplexity, despair, joy guilt, love.
Don Ethan Miller '68, The Book of Jargon. Macmillan, 1981. 347 pp. Jargon, as Miller writes, is that form of "specialized and nonpublic language" used by members of a profession, trade, or subculture — doctors, lawyers, bureaucrats, repairmen, computer experts — "not only to communicate with each other but to effec-tively exclude outsiders." Miller's aim is to make the arcane idiom of such specialists available to the "layperson" and thus "to empower consumers to do battle with the professionals by knowing their language.' Using — for the most part — straightforward standard English, Miller defines, indeed "translates," over 5,000 terms from the inside vocabularies used in such fields as medicine, real estate, TV, rock and pop music, business, government, sports, and the drug culture. Not the least of his contributions to linguistic sanity is that along the way he succinctly deflates many a pretentious euphemism. His book is also, quite simply, good reading.
Robert W. Dickgiesser '69, Bermuda — King George VI High Values. Triad Publications, 1980. 64 pp. For philatelists, the most complete work published to date on this group of rare stamps. It contains descriptions and illustrations of every variety of the stamp and of every known flaw as well as a chart listing values and printings of each variety.
Paul F. Velleman '7l and David C. Hoaglin, Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis. Duxbury Press, 1981. Softcover. 354 pp. The authors select nine different techniques for exploratory-data analysis and, making each the basis for a single chapter, "lay the foundations of understanding the tech-nique, describe useful variations, illustrate applications to real data, and provide computer programs in FORTRAN ant) BASIC."
