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More May Titles: D. Keith Mano’s biggest novel, ten years in the making, is Take Five (Doubleday, $17.95), about a man who loses his five senses and discovers God. … If you like Americana (baseball and The New Yorker, for example) you’ll love Late Innings: A New Baseball Companion (Simon & Schuster, $16.95), by Roger Angell.

The Reactionary Mind: Jews without Mercy: A Lament (Anchor Press/ Doubleday, $13.95), by Earl Shorris, is a quite hysterical Attentat on Jewish neoconservatives (Podhoretz, Kristol, Glazer, Decter, etc.), whom the author chides for having abandoned the traditional Jewish commitment to charity and liberalism. He suggests that behind this trahison des clercs lurks a profound shame at being Jewish. . . . Speak Out: Against the New Right (Beacon, $14.50; $7.25 paper), edited by Herbert F. Fetter, is a veritable zoological garden of the Opposition: Carl Sagan, Gloria Steinem, John Kenneth Galbraith, Norman Lear, and many others, “speaking out” against Jerry Falwell, the imperiled First Amendment, nuclear arms, and so forth. The editor is a chaplain at Harvard. . . . George W. Ball’s The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs (Norton, $19.95) is overlong and intolerably smug as it discusses Henry Kissinger, the Vietnam “aberration,” and other weighty subjects. (All the above to be published in May.)

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More May Titles: D. Keith Mano’s biggest novel, ten years in the making, is Take Five (Doubleday, $17.95), about a man who loses his five senses and discovers God. … If you like Americana (baseball and The New Yorker, for example) you’ll love Late Innings: A New Baseball Companion (Simon & Schuster, $16.95), by Roger Angell.

The Reactionary Mind: Jews without Mercy: A Lament (Anchor Press/ Doubleday, $13.95), by Earl Shorris, is a quite hysterical Attentat on Jewish neoconservatives (Podhoretz, Kristol, Glazer, Decter, etc.), whom the author chides for having abandoned the traditional Jewish commitment to charity and liberalism. He suggests that behind this trahison des clercs lurks a profound shame at being Jewish. . . . Speak Out: Against the New Right (Beacon, $14.50; $7.25 paper), edited by Herbert F. Fetter, is a veritable zoological garden of the Opposition: Carl Sagan, Gloria Steinem, John Kenneth Galbraith, Norman Lear, and many others, “speaking out” against Jerry Falwell, the imperiled First Amendment, nuclear arms, and so forth. The editor is a chaplain at Harvard. . . . George W. Ball’s The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs (Norton, $19.95) is overlong and intolerably smug as it discusses Henry Kissinger, the Vietnam “aberration,” and other weighty subjects. (All the above to be published in May.)