Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

More November Titles: Eugen Loebl (author of Humanomics and My Mind on Trial) and Stephen B. Roman have collaborated on The Responsible Society (Regina Ryan Books/Two Continents, $6.95), in which, working from the principles of humanomics, they advocate a new approach to economics that would include such reforms as replacing government spending by government lending. . . . Morris Alexander, a well-known member of the American Zionist community, emigrated to Israel with his family and lived there four years. Israel and Me (Two Continents/Schenkman, $10) is his somewhat disillusioned portrait of that country.

Some January Titles: Peter Gay, in Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (Oxford, $12.95), addresses himself to the contribution of German Jewry to modernism. . . . A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig (University of California, $8.95), translation by Max Knight, introduction by Edward E. Lowinsky, is a record of the partnership that produced the opera The Silent Woman, premiered in Germany in 1935. . . . Frank Mankiewicz and Joel E. Swerdlow strike a predictable attitude in their treatment of the influence of TV in general and TV violence in particular, in their book Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life (Times Books, $15). But how bemusing to find a retired press agent and political campaign manager complaining about “manipulation of the public”! . . . In The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (Knopf, $15), Philip Greven, a social historian of modest parts, traces the developing solicitude for the self that ended by eviscerating the Early American strain of Protestant piety. . . . George McGovern’s Grassroots (Random House, $12.50) is an autobiographical work that probably foretells his political future as well as telling of his personal origins. Interestingly, McGovern, writing in the era of the Carter ministry, says very little about his own early aspirations to the cloth. . . . Harrison E. Salisbury’s Black Night, White Snow: Russia’s Revolutions, 1905-1917 (Doubleday, $14.95) is the first of two volumes on the subject. . . . Memoirs of a Polyglot: The Autobiography of William Gerhardie (St. Martin’s, $10) is flawed solely by the fact that it was written in 1931 when its author was only 35. St. Martin’s reprinted Gerhardie’s novels to shouts of critical exultation several years ago.

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More November Titles: Eugen Loebl (author of Humanomics and My Mind on Trial) and Stephen B. Roman have collaborated on The Responsible Society (Regina Ryan Books/Two Continents, $6.95), in which, working from the principles of humanomics, they advocate a new approach to economics that would include such reforms as replacing government spending by government lending. . . . Morris Alexander, a well-known member of the American Zionist community, emigrated to Israel with his family and lived there four years. Israel and Me (Two Continents/Schenkman, $10) is his somewhat disillusioned portrait of that country.

Some January Titles: Peter Gay, in Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (Oxford, $12.95), addresses himself to the contribution of German Jewry to modernism. . . . A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig (University of California, $8.95), translation by Max Knight, introduction by Edward E. Lowinsky, is a record of the partnership that produced the opera The Silent Woman, premiered in Germany in 1935. . . . Frank Mankiewicz and Joel E. Swerdlow strike a predictable attitude in their treatment of the influence of TV in general and TV violence in particular, in their book Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life (Times Books, $15). But how bemusing to find a retired press agent and political campaign manager complaining about “manipulation of the public”! . . . In The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (Knopf, $15), Philip Greven, a social historian of modest parts, traces the developing solicitude for the self that ended by eviscerating the Early American strain of Protestant piety. . . . George McGovern’s Grassroots (Random House, $12.50) is an autobiographical work that probably foretells his political future as well as telling of his personal origins. Interestingly, McGovern, writing in the era of the Carter ministry, says very little about his own early aspirations to the cloth. . . . Harrison E. Salisbury’s Black Night, White Snow: Russia’s Revolutions, 1905-1917 (Doubleday, $14.95) is the first of two volumes on the subject. . . . Memoirs of a Polyglot: The Autobiography of William Gerhardie (St. Martin’s, $10) is flawed solely by the fact that it was written in 1931 when its author was only 35. St. Martin’s reprinted Gerhardie’s novels to shouts of critical exultation several years ago.