■ More April Titles: Philip B. Kurland’s Watergate and the Constitution (University of Chicago, $12.50) is a series of essays the burden of which is that Watergate was the outcome of the slow and steady growth of concentrated government power. . . . Walt W. Rostow’s The World Economy: History and Prospect (University of Texas, $34.50) is, in the words of the author, “Both an essay in history and a challenge to the conventional neoclassical and neo-Keynesian economic theory.” . . . Marvin Barrett, in Rich News, Poor News (Crowell, $7.95), a work sponsored by the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Survey of Broadcasting Journalism, assesses television in 1976-77 and discovers that news coverage continues to slide more and more into sheer entertainment.
■ Some May Titles: The Gulag Archipelago V-VII (Harper, $16.95) is the last volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s great work. . . . Alfred Kazin’s New York Jew (Knopf, $10.95) is the second volume of the literary critic’s autobiography, of which the first was Walker in the City. . . . Malcolm Cowley’s —And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 (Viking, $12.50) is a collection of his essays written over the past twenty years. . . . John Gruen is publishing Menotti: A Biography (Macmillan, $14.95). . . . Ethel Merman, one of the great performers of our time, who managed to elevate sheer animal vulgarity to the level of the great humanities, has written her own biography, Merman (Simon & Schuster, $9.95), with the help of Mr. George Eells. She was not, like Perle Mesta, born on “a thousand acres of Oklahoma land,” but she was born with something better than oil.
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