PYRAMIDS OF SACRIFICE: Political
Ethics and Social Change, by Peter
L.
Berger. Basic Books, $10.00
Peter Berger scrutinizes two great
schemes for national development–
capitalism and socialism-demon–
strating how these two are often " pyr–
amids of sacrifice" for which eco–
nomic planners and intellectuals de–
mand the labor and the very lives of
their people. An argument for the
supremacy of human values over cap–
italist and socialist myths in all plans
for national development.
THE STREET, by Mordecai Richler.
New Republic Book Co., $6.95
In these memoirs, the novelist
Mordecai Richler, author of The Ap–
prenticeshipof Duddy Kravitz , evokes
the Jewish neighborhood of St. Ur–
bain Street that he knew as a boy in
Montreal. It's a background that
Richler warmly remembers, but one
that he describes with a wry, unsentI–
mental touch.
THROUGH PAEDIATRICS TO
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS: The Collected
Papers of D. W. Winnicott. Basic
Books , $12.95
Here-amply displaying the in–
sights , erudition , and readability that
characterizes all his writings-Is a
distillation of the knowledge and ex–
perience that have gained for D. W .
Winnicott an honored place In the
ranks of his profession .
STATEMENTS: New Fiction from the
Fiction Collective. Venture, $8.95
Israel Horovitz, Ronald Sukenick ,
Ishmael Reed , Andrei Codrescu ,
Jerome Charyn , Fielding Dawson ,
Maureen Howard , Russell Banks ,
Mark Mirsky, John Ashberry , Jona–
than Baumbach , and Walter Abish
constitute only a portion of the more
than twenty artists whose work is
included here. None of the pieces
in this anthology has appeared in
print in any form prior to this publica–
tion .
THE NATURE OF HUMAN VALUES,
by Milton Rokeach . Free Press,
$13.95
" For a social psychologist at this
time to entitle a book The Nature of
Human Values is no timid act , for it
stakes high claims in an area of in–
tense scientific controversy. But thiS
challenging and clarifying work jus–
tifies the title as it develops ItS Impor–
tant thesis. " -Political Science
Quarterly . " It may .. . be the best
counter
yet
to B. F. Skinner and
others who deny that humans pos–
sess values"-Sociology .
AMERICA IN THE MOVIES: Or ,
" Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My
Mind!", by Michael Wood. Basic
Books, $10.00
Film critic Michael Wood takes a
witty , yet searching look at America's
ideas of itself , as revealed In the great
films of the 40's and 50's. Illustrated .
SELECTED POEMS, by Czeslaw
Milosz. Introduction by Kenneth Rex–
roth. Seabury Press , $5.95
This selection of poetry spans a
period of several decades if'!cluding
poems written in Nazi-occupied War–
saw , but with emphasis on the work
of the past ten years.
PERSPECTIVE , by Charles Rembar.
Arbor House, $8.95
The noted constitutional attorney
and author of The End of Obscenity
looks at the on-going scenario of life
through law during the last decade.
Included are the political trials of Dr.
Spock and Bobby Seale ; First
Amendment assaults and defenses,
as in the Pentagon Papers trial ; cen–
sorship by police action ; the Water–
gate heari ngs ; the defense of
Richard Nixon ; Nixon 's resignation ;
the pardon by President Ford ; and
the fight initiated by the author to
keep Ni xon's tapes public property.
A PLAN FOR ESCAPE, by Adolfo
Bioy-Casares. Translated by
Suzanne Jill Levine. Dutton , $7.95
Suspenseful , baffling , haunting ,
this novel by the friend , collaborator
and disciple of Jorge Luis Borges
echoes Borges' preoccupation with
the philosophical concepts of time
and space as it unravels a riveting tale
with a startling ending .
SPORT, by Dick Schaap, with a fore–
word by Jimmy Breslin. Arbor
House, $8.95
Since age fourteen (when he went
to work for nineteen-year-old Jimmy
Breslin on a Long Island newspaper) ,
Dick Schaap has been writing about
the world·of sport-especially about
the personalities that have made
sports a national passion . Now
In
this volume the sportscaster/writer
overlooks a tumultuous era and its
luminaries, including Sugar Ray
Robinson Mickey Mantle , Pancho
Gonzales , Wilt Chamberlain , and
Muhammad Ali.
