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Dartmouth Authors

JUNE 1982
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Dartmouth Authors
JUNE 1982

W. H. Ferry '32, contributor. Protest and Survive, E. P. Thompson and Dan Smith, eds. Monthly Review Press, 1981. 216 pp. A timely collection of essays by ten authorities, American and British, warning of the imminent, mortal danger to us all inherent in "the official nuclear weapons policy of the United Kingdom, the United States, NATO, the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the worldwide military industrial complex." As the title suggests, the book is an urgent call to action, to strenuous, informed protest. Ferry's essay, "By What Right?" concludes with a cogent summation of the world's plight chosen from Deuteronomy: "I have set before you.life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."

Joseph A. Slechta '34, Modern OrchestralViola Technique. Book I: Chromatic Sequences. Privately Published, 1980. 26 pp. A comprehensive system of 12-tone fingering for violists "derived from the demands of modern orchestral literature" and to aid "directly in the execution of many difficult passages found in viola parts from Berlioz to Stravinsky and beyond. A Professional violist who has played with many orchestras, Slechta also teaches French phonetics at the University of North Carolina.

Peter Cardozo '39, The Third WholeKids Catalogue. Bantam Books, 1981. Urge format, softcover. 256 pp. Bigger and better than its two spectacularly successful predecessors, Cardozo's newest production is both a source and an activity book for children. As an activity book, it is chock-full of projects for kids: making paper airplanes, turning out candied popcorn, threading a "space maze," even making a crystal radio set. Used as a source book, it tells the kids where and how to send away for books and other materials on literally scores of other irresistible activities, among them jugcling, kite making, or of course! playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Richard B. Kearsley '49 and Irving E. Sigel, Infants at Risk: An Assessment of Cognitive Functions. Earlbaum Associates, 1979, 33 pp. Following an earlier study of the effects of the day-care experience on the cognitive development of young children. Dr. Kearsley with colleague Irving E. Sigel have turned attention to the cognitive functions of high-risk babies. Containing eight essays, including one by each of the editors. the book suggests an expansion of "the traditional biological model that has guided the clinical management of highrisk infants to accommodate a broader perspective of the developmental needs of such children."

David I. Steinberg '50, Burma's Road Toward Development. Westview Press, 1981. 233 pp. In 1962, Burmese military leaders overthrew the democratic government and placed the nation of 33 million people on "a vigorous and doctrinaire road to socialism," with the avowed aim of transforming Burma into a modern industrialized nation. For the next decade, however, the economy stagnated, and the standard of living fell below even pre-World War II levels. And so the goal of socialist industrialization was deferred until at least 1994, and priorities were shifted to enhanced production in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining. Will Burma's new road to development succeed? Steinberg is not optimistic. A "rigid interpretation" of socialist ideology, he believes, "has postponed fulfillment of the country's potential."

Franklin O. Loveland '64 and Christine A. Loveland, eds., Sex Roles and SocialChange in Native Louer Central AmericanSocieties. University of Illinois Press, 1982. 185 pp. A collection of ten original anthropological essays that "shift the focus of previous ethnographic studies on Central America ... by dealing with the sex roles of men as well as those of women" in six indigenous societies of Central America.

David H. Watters '72, "With BodilieEyes": Eschatological Themes in Puritan Literature and Gravestone Art. University of Microfilms, 1981. 255 pp. "With bodilie eyes": the phrase was Increase Mather's; and because it affirmed that Christ would be seen in human form and with human eyes at the end of the world, it "sent a ripple through the Puritan imagination," Watters writes, and became an important constituent of both Puritan writing and the formation of visual images, especially gravestone iconography.

George S. Wolohojian '73, Charles H. Levine, and Irene S. Rubin, The Politics ofRetrenchment: How Local Governments Manage Fiscal Stress. Sage Publications, 1981. Softcover. 224 pp. After New York City's well publicized fiscal crisis of 1974, the authors write, for the first time urbanologists "began to devote attention to the responses to fiscal stress as well as to the causes of such stress." Their own contribution to the growing literature focuses on four representative localities: Oakland, California; Cincinnati, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; and Prince George's County, Maryland. Their aim is "to provide information to administrators on how other localities are handling the administrative and political complexities associated with fiscal stress."

John Cavanagh '77 and Frederick Clairmonte, The World in Their Web: TheDynamics of Textile Multinationals. Zed Press (London), 1981. 278 pp. An indepth analysis of 15 multi-commodity trading organizations that control over 85 per cent of the production and distribution processes of the world's cotton trade as well as those of many synthetic textiles.