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Just Out: In Reason and Violence R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper see what they can make of Sartre (Pantheon, $5.95)…. Henry L. Trewhitt of Newsweek fashions a nosegay for McNamara (Harper, $7.95)…. Professor Kenneth E. Shewmaker of Dartmouth surveys Americans and Chinese Communists, 19’27-1945 with special attention to writers who hailed the agrarian reformers. Shewmaker especially likes Edgar Snow but runs through an ample list that includes Vincent Sheean, John Gunther, Brooks Atkinson and Theodore White. Only Hemingway stayed cool.

Films. Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays will be adapted for the screen by the author and husband John Gregory Dunne…. Young Winston is a Carl Foreman-Richard Attenborough production based on Churchill’s early adventures. Simon Ward has the lead…. Barbra Streisand will star in Masquerade, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, “Yentle the Yeshiva Boy.”

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Just Out: In Reason and Violence R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper see what they can make of Sartre (Pantheon, $5.95)…. Henry L. Trewhitt of Newsweek fashions a nosegay for McNamara (Harper, $7.95)…. Professor Kenneth E. Shewmaker of Dartmouth surveys Americans and Chinese Communists, 19’27-1945 with special attention to writers who hailed the agrarian reformers. Shewmaker especially likes Edgar Snow but runs through an ample list that includes Vincent Sheean, John Gunther, Brooks Atkinson and Theodore White. Only Hemingway stayed cool.

Films. Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays will be adapted for the screen by the author and husband John Gregory Dunne…. Young Winston is a Carl Foreman-Richard Attenborough production based on Churchill’s early adventures. Simon Ward has the lead…. Barbra Streisand will star in Masquerade, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, “Yentle the Yeshiva Boy.”