| Edition |
2d. ed. |
| Description |
552 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Prentice-Hall English composition and introduction to literature series
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Prentice-Hall English composition and introduction to literature series.
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| Contents |
Movies in America: After fifty years / Budd Schulberg -- The wickedest woman in Larchmont / S. J. Perelman -- A comedy to those that think / Lloyd Morris -- Taboos / Hortense Powdermaker -- The old man on the screen / Arthur Knight --Fish story / John McCarten -- The human adventure of radio / Francis C. Coughlin -- Board Meeting / Frederic Wakeman -- TV: A prospectus / Louis Kronenberger -- Me and the set / John Crosby -- How to tell good guys from bad guys / John Steinbeck -- The situation of Edward R. Murrow -- It's hideously true / Al Capp -- Masterpieces as cartoons / Delmore Schwartz -- Paul, the horror comics and Dr. Wertham / Robert Warshow -- A selection from Pogo / Walt Kelly -- The use of words / T. S. Eliot -- Why Johnny can't write / Willard Thorp -- Writing prose / W. Somerset Maugham -- Words and their meanings / Aldous Huxley -- The schools of Russia / John Gunther -- The education really needed for a changing world / Arthur Bestor -- The real attack is on education for all the people / Arthur F. Corey -- The schools of yesteryear: A one-sided dialogue -- What every freshman should know / Roger W. Holmes -- Cartoon / Dick Bibler -- The essentials of education / Sir Richard Libingstone -- Idealism today / James A. Michener -- The consolations of illiteracy / Phyllis McGinley -- The university / James Bryant -- Campus versus classroom / Burges Johnson -- What college did to me / Robert Benchley -- Cartoon / Dick Bibler -- Take care of my little girl / Peggy Goodin -- Are fraternities necessary / Stephen Birmingham -- Cartoon / Charles Addams -- Cartoon / Dick Bibler -- Olympus in Catawba / Thomas Wolfe -- College athletics - Education or show business / Harold W. Stoke -- A visit with Bud Wilkson / Harry T. Paxton -- Too much football / Allen Jackson -- Football broadcast / Robert Lewis Taylor -- Marx, Engels, and bakunin / Edmund Wilson -- Communism / Paul F. Gemmill and Ralph H. Blodgett -- The examination / Arthur Koestler -- The melancholy road to Kronstadt / James D. Koerner -- Les miserables / Whittaker Chambers -- Coketown / Charles Dickens -- The empire building of capitalism / Mathew Josephson -- The world of Jimmy Hoffa / Paul Jacobs -- Economic Prosperity / Robert L. Heilbroner -- The legacy of Andrew Jackson / Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. -- Cartoon / Jules Feiffer -- The cliche expert testifies on the atom / Frank Sullivan -- Relativity / Lincoln Barnett -- How does it all add up? / Harold C. Urey -- The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Do we want to save ourselves? / C. F. Von Weizsacker -- How big is one? / Edward Weeks -- Does history repeat itself? / Arnold J. Toynbee -- Philosophy and literature / Julian Ross -- The hint of an explanation / Graham Greene -- Religion and science / Alfred North Whitehead |
| Subject |
American literature.
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American literature. |
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English literature.
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English literature. |
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
| Added Author |
Hummel, William C. (William Castle)
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