Random Notes

More June Titles: Smoking-marijuana will apparently-not make hair grow on your palms, but it will cause a major psychoactive substance to accumulate in your sex glands, says Dr. Gabriel C. Nahas in Keep Off the Grass! A Scientist’s Documented Account of Marijuana’s Destructive Effects (Reader’s Digest Press, $6.95). . . . Ellen Frankfort, author of Vaginal Politics, seems to have become the Village Voice’s Brendan Gill: her new-book is The-Voice: Life at the Village Voice (Morrow; $9.9’5). Flattering it is not. . . . Thomas E. Patterson and Robert D. McClure argue that the three major TV networks don’t say enough-about presidential candidates to bend anybody’s mind, in The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections (Putnam, $7.95). Noel B. Gerson has produced a book about the woman who made “Uncle Tom” a fighting phrase: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography (Praeger, $8.95). … Calling Garry Wills! Infected though it might have been by the specter of “Trumanism,” the period 1945-50 has nevertheless been written up by Joseph C. Goulden as The Best Years (Atheneum,. $15).

Joel Carmichael’s Stalin’s Masterpiece: The Show Trials and Purges of the Thirties-The Consolidation of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (St.-Martin’s, $10) describes crimes that Khrushchev in 1956 could ‘ only hint at, inasmuch, as most of the Soviet leadership had participated in them. John G. .Hubbell has written POW: A Definitive History of the American Pris-oner-of-War Experience in Vietnam 1969-1973 (Reader’s Digest Press, $15). POWs have seen the future and it stinks. . . . William Manners, in Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello La Guardia . (Harcourt Brace, $12.95), describes the life of The Little Flower That Could. . . . Robert Penn Warren’s Selected Poems: 1923-1975 (Random-House, $12.50) contains ten poems that have. apparently never before appeared. between boards. . . Neal R. Peirce examines the seedbed of American idealism—and worse—in The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in Six New England States-(Norton, $12.95). . . . Reacting to this one, even Harriet Van Horne temporarily forgot the plight of pregnant women to defend “the purity” of our English language: Words and Women: Reality Askew in the English Language (Doubleday/Anchor, $7.95), in which Casey Miller and Kate. Swift argue that sexist language and habits relegate women to the role of a sub-species.

More June Titles: Smoking-marijuana will apparently-not make hair grow on your palms, but it will cause a major psychoactive substance to accumulate in your sex glands, says Dr. Gabriel C. Nahas in Keep Off the Grass! A Scientist’s Documented Account of Marijuana’s Destructive Effects (Reader’s Digest Press, $6.95). . . . Ellen Frankfort, author of Vaginal Politics, seems to have become the Village Voice’s Brendan Gill: her new-book is The-Voice: Life at the Village Voice (Morrow; $9.9’5). Flattering it is not. . . . Thomas E. Patterson and Robert D. McClure argue that the three major TV networks don’t say enough-about presidential candidates to bend anybody’s mind, in The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections (Putnam, $7.95). Noel B. Gerson has produced a book about the woman who made “Uncle Tom” a fighting phrase: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography (Praeger, $8.95). … Calling Garry Wills! Infected though it might have been by the specter of “Trumanism,” the period 1945-50 has nevertheless been written up by Joseph C. Goulden as The Best Years (Atheneum,. $15).

Joel Carmichael’s Stalin’s Masterpiece: The Show Trials and Purges of the Thirties-The Consolidation of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (St.-Martin’s, $10) describes crimes that Khrushchev in 1956 could ‘ only hint at, inasmuch, as most of the Soviet leadership had participated in them. John G. .Hubbell has written POW: A Definitive History of the American Pris-oner-of-War Experience in Vietnam 1969-1973 (Reader’s Digest Press, $15). POWs have seen the future and it stinks. . . . William Manners, in Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello La Guardia . (Harcourt Brace, $12.95), describes the life of The Little Flower That Could. . . . Robert Penn Warren’s Selected Poems: 1923-1975 (Random-House, $12.50) contains ten poems that have. apparently never before appeared. between boards. . . Neal R. Peirce examines the seedbed of American idealism—and worse—in The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in Six New England States-(Norton, $12.95). . . . Reacting to this one, even Harriet Van Horne temporarily forgot the plight of pregnant women to defend “the purity” of our English language: Words and Women: Reality Askew in the English Language (Doubleday/Anchor, $7.95), in which Casey Miller and Kate. Swift argue that sexist language and habits relegate women to the role of a sub-species.