No Blueprint

The Challenge to American Life, edited by Andrew S. Berky. 126 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. $2.75

Five intelligent men have contributed their ideas, in the form of short lectures, to this small book, described by its publishers as “A blueprint for progress which rises above immediate political expediency and pressure.” But it is not a blueprint. The contributors pose more problems than they solve, while Ralph Cooper Hutchinson’s lecture on “Spiritual Man” makes the book a palimpsest; for his thoughts cancel out some of the thoughts of his materialistic colleagues.

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The Challenge to American Life, edited by Andrew S. Berky. 126 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. $2.75

Five intelligent men have contributed their ideas, in the form of short lectures, to this small book, described by its publishers as “A blueprint for progress which rises above immediate political expediency and pressure.” But it is not a blueprint. The contributors pose more problems than they solve, while Ralph Cooper Hutchinson’s lecture on “Spiritual Man” makes the book a palimpsest; for his thoughts cancel out some of the thoughts of his materialistic colleagues.