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More January Titles: Eurocommunism: Challenge for East and West (Holt, $17.95), by Wolfgang Leonhard, translated by Mark Vecchio, argues that Eurocommunism is indeed Communism with a Botticelli face. . . . David McLellan’s Marxism after Marx (Harper & Row, $17.50) is a useful reference work for people who believe that Marxism continues to be an intellectually credible discipline.

Gail Thain Parker takes on the American academic Establishment in The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). Among her many opinions: that academe has become a kind of fail-safe establishment, where meal-ticketed kids are taught in serene security by fat and stupid—and tenured—professors. . . . Want to get a grant? You don’t have to repay, and it’s interest-free, and they’re dying to give it to you. Sort of like the Marshall Plan. Craig W. Smith and Eric W. Skjei tell you all you need to know in Getting Grants (Harper & Row, $12.95). . . . Earl Fry describes, in his Financial Invasion of the U.S.A.: A Threat to American Society? (McGraw-Hill, $9.95), a state of affairs which may cause the radical young at Columbia, Berkeley, and other hotspots to start denouncing the exploitation by greedy foreign capitalists of such quintessential Third World countries as South Carolina, Alabama, Grand Union, and Baskin-Robbins.

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More January Titles: Eurocommunism: Challenge for East and West (Holt, $17.95), by Wolfgang Leonhard, translated by Mark Vecchio, argues that Eurocommunism is indeed Communism with a Botticelli face. . . . David McLellan’s Marxism after Marx (Harper & Row, $17.50) is a useful reference work for people who believe that Marxism continues to be an intellectually credible discipline.

Gail Thain Parker takes on the American academic Establishment in The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). Among her many opinions: that academe has become a kind of fail-safe establishment, where meal-ticketed kids are taught in serene security by fat and stupid—and tenured—professors. . . . Want to get a grant? You don’t have to repay, and it’s interest-free, and they’re dying to give it to you. Sort of like the Marshall Plan. Craig W. Smith and Eric W. Skjei tell you all you need to know in Getting Grants (Harper & Row, $12.95). . . . Earl Fry describes, in his Financial Invasion of the U.S.A.: A Threat to American Society? (McGraw-Hill, $9.95), a state of affairs which may cause the radical young at Columbia, Berkeley, and other hotspots to start denouncing the exploitation by greedy foreign capitalists of such quintessential Third World countries as South Carolina, Alabama, Grand Union, and Baskin-Robbins.