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Mr. Podhoretz! Mr. Podhoretz! Now James Baldwin says that “White people have no principles whatever” in The Devil Finds Work: An Essay (Dial, $6.95). Ivan Illich now wants to dedoctor society: he babbles on about “iatrogenesis” (physician-caused disease) in Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Pantheon, $8.95). The capitalist era is over, says Michael Harrington, who, after all, hasn’t had a bestseller for years; perhaps the sales statistics of his new tome will cause him to revise its thesis: The Twilight of Capitalism (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). God save us all! Arnold Toynbee’s posthumous legacy to humanity is a small steamer trunk labeled Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World (Oxford, $19.9’5). Ashley Montagu offers the placid berry-picking societies as proof that human beings are not instinctively and predominantly aggressive (what about grape-pickers, Mr. Montagu?) in The Nature of Human Aggression (Oxford, $9.95). . . . Dan Greenburg, who scored and told, has left off with prom queens: the objects of his present attentions are ghosts and things, whom he discusses in Something’s There (Doubleday, $8.95). Harold Robbins’ new heroine is lonely—God knows why, she sounds from the blurb to be That Cosmopolitan

Children’s Books: The woes of a little stutterer named P-P-P-Polly B-B-B-Banks are the subject of S-S-S-Sally K-K-K-Kel-ley’s Trouble with Explosives (Bradbury, $5.95, ages 9-12).A young lemming named Bubber warns the lemming community against the perils of brinksmanship in Alan Arkin’s book—illustrated by Joan Sandlin—The Lemming Condition (Harper & Row, $4.95, ages 9 and up).Ann Rockwell retells the Gallic tale of a mi-grained goose seeking sanctuary in Cham-bord or someplace and a master chef to make her peppermint tea, in Poor Goose (Crowell, $6.50, illustrated by the author, ages 4-8).Yahweh, it appears from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Tale of Three Wishes (Farrar, Straus, $4.95, illustrated by Irene Lieblich, ages 4 and up), knows that happiness is getting what you want— much later.Women get credit for, among other things, scalping the forebears of AIM, in Selma R. Williams’ Demeter’s Daughters: The Women Who Founded America, 1-587-1787 (Atheneum, $9.95, ages 12 and up).

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Mr. Podhoretz! Mr. Podhoretz! Now James Baldwin says that “White people have no principles whatever” in The Devil Finds Work: An Essay (Dial, $6.95). Ivan Illich now wants to dedoctor society: he babbles on about “iatrogenesis” (physician-caused disease) in Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Pantheon, $8.95). The capitalist era is over, says Michael Harrington, who, after all, hasn’t had a bestseller for years; perhaps the sales statistics of his new tome will cause him to revise its thesis: The Twilight of Capitalism (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). God save us all! Arnold Toynbee’s posthumous legacy to humanity is a small steamer trunk labeled Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World (Oxford, $19.9’5). Ashley Montagu offers the placid berry-picking societies as proof that human beings are not instinctively and predominantly aggressive (what about grape-pickers, Mr. Montagu?) in The Nature of Human Aggression (Oxford, $9.95). . . . Dan Greenburg, who scored and told, has left off with prom queens: the objects of his present attentions are ghosts and things, whom he discusses in Something’s There (Doubleday, $8.95). Harold Robbins’ new heroine is lonely—God knows why, she sounds from the blurb to be That Cosmopolitan

Children’s Books: The woes of a little stutterer named P-P-P-Polly B-B-B-Banks are the subject of S-S-S-Sally K-K-K-Kel-ley’s Trouble with Explosives (Bradbury, $5.95, ages 9-12).A young lemming named Bubber warns the lemming community against the perils of brinksmanship in Alan Arkin’s book—illustrated by Joan Sandlin—The Lemming Condition (Harper & Row, $4.95, ages 9 and up).Ann Rockwell retells the Gallic tale of a mi-grained goose seeking sanctuary in Cham-bord or someplace and a master chef to make her peppermint tea, in Poor Goose (Crowell, $6.50, illustrated by the author, ages 4-8).Yahweh, it appears from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Tale of Three Wishes (Farrar, Straus, $4.95, illustrated by Irene Lieblich, ages 4 and up), knows that happiness is getting what you want— much later.Women get credit for, among other things, scalping the forebears of AIM, in Selma R. Williams’ Demeter’s Daughters: The Women Who Founded America, 1-587-1787 (Atheneum, $9.95, ages 12 and up).