| Description |
viii, 472 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pioneers and old-timers / Carl Sandburg -- Midas on a goatskin / J. Frank Dobie -- Downfall of a revolutionary / H. L. Mencken -- The upper Bohemians / Russell Lynes -- Happy birthday / John Mason Brown -- Scenes at Fort Laramie / Francis Parkman -- A Missouri farm / Mark Twain -- The strangest place in Chicago / John Bartlow Martin -- The land of enchantment / Wallace Stegner -- Those lovely smells / Franklin P. Adams -- Heritage / George R. Stewart -- Bahia Blanca to Buenoas Ayres / Charles Darwin -- Co-operatives / Roy Bedichek -- Idol of the caves / M. R. Harrington -- The early Americans / Frank H. H. Roberts -- The life of the water film / Lorus J. Milne and Margery J. Milne -- Enjoy them while they last / Ben East -- Scientists in a mad world / Maurice B. Visscher -- Surveying the field: The limitless potential / David O. Woodbury -- The emporor's new clothes, or prius demantat / Harry J. Fuller -- Scientists and education / Simon Williams and James D. Laurits -- A little learning / Alfred Whitney Griswold -- Should a businessman be educated? / Fortune magazine -- Bell telephone's experiment in education / E. Digby Baltzell -- Education for a classless society: The Jeffersonian tradition / James Bryant Conant -- Ivory towers in the marketplace / Anonymous -- Can Johnny read? And if not why not? / Fred M. Hechinger -- The mass mind / Joyce Cary -- Soviet society: From the dacha set down / Fortune magazine -- How hard do Americans drink? / Gilbert Burck -- Bread, Freedom, and businessmen / Sidney Hook -- The dynamic logic of mass production / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Who is loyal to America? / Henry Steele Commager -- The ethical attitudes of priveleged classes / Reinhold Niebuhr -- A world I'd like: An unprophetic vision / Bertrand Russell -- It's a democracy, isn't it? / Alistair Cooke -- Symbols / S. I. Hayakawa -- Some words stop at Marietta, Ohio / Gledhill Cameron -- Snobs, slobs and the English language / Donald J. Lloyd -- The retort circumstantial / Jacques Barzan -- The decline of attention / Clifton Fadiman -- The world of the detective story / Anonymous -- Confessions of a book reviewer / George Orwell -- A century of clues and sleuths / Katherine Woods -- Enter murderers / Clifton Fadiman -- Eugene O'Neill, the lonely revolutionary / Joseph Wood Krutch -- On the instrumental origins of Jazz / Russell Roth -- Civilization and routine / George Boas -- The magic revival / T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings -- A clergyman looks at the movies / Allan A. Hunter -- Your best entertainment / John Rosenfield -- The real menace of TV / Jane Whitbread and Vivian Cadden -- Limelight / Time Magazine -- Limelight on life / Al Hine -- Sports / David L. Cohn -- Fishing in Paris / John Steinbeck -- These lands are yours / Bernard DeVoto -- The negro in track athletics / George P. Meade -- Notes and comments / Stanley Hyman -- Big boom in the grunt and groan business / Sam Boal -- Hell on wheels / Harper's magazine |
| Genre/Form |
College readers.
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| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
| Added Author |
Hughes, Leo, 1908-1995.
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