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Johannes P. Van Vugt, Democratic Organization for Social Change: Latin American Christian Base Communities and Literacy Campaigns. New York: Bergin & Garvey (Green-wood), 1991. Pp. 192, $45.00 (cloth)

Johannes P. Van Vugt, Democratic Organization for Social Change: Latin American Christian Base... 316 expects of its young people is mentioned only briefly. Selectivity undermines his argument by omitting what Robert Frost in another connection poetically called "star-points in dark- ness." University presses merit occasional attention, but the survival of academically-based publishers-like his own-within the book-publishing context he deplores is inadequately examined. He includes the city of Houston in his blanket condemnation of American vul- garity, but this partially correct judgment overlooks such star-points in the humid smog as the Houston Symphony, the Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, the Alley Theatre, and ground-breaking in 1996 for a new $60 million addition of 185,000 square feet for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. Historians of American taste might fault Twitchell for over-emphasizing how vulgarity has dramatically increased over the past generation; his bib- liography lists 311 entries but Marya Mannes' 1964 book, But Will It Sell?, a lament similar to his, is not one of them. When the hard-cover edition of this book was published in 1992 it was widely disregarded by the gate-keepers who commission book reviews for journals in the social sciences, but their indifference deserves no censure. Oral History Project Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas, U.S.A. CHARLES T. MORRISSEY http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

Johannes P. Van Vugt, Democratic Organization for Social Change: Latin American Christian Base Communities and Literacy Campaigns. New York: Bergin & Garvey (Green-wood), 1991. Pp. 192, $45.00 (cloth)

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/002071596X00163
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Abstract

316 expects of its young people is mentioned only briefly. Selectivity undermines his argument by omitting what Robert Frost in another connection poetically called "star-points in dark- ness." University presses merit occasional attention, but the survival of academically-based publishers-like his own-within the book-publishing context he deplores is inadequately examined. He includes the city of Houston in his blanket condemnation of American vul- garity, but this partially correct judgment overlooks such star-points in the humid smog as the Houston Symphony, the Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, the Alley Theatre, and ground-breaking in 1996 for a new $60 million addition of 185,000 square feet for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. Historians of American taste might fault Twitchell for over-emphasizing how vulgarity has dramatically increased over the past generation; his bib- liography lists 311 entries but Marya Mannes' 1964 book, But Will It Sell?, a lament similar to his, is not one of them. When the hard-cover edition of this book was published in 1992 it was widely disregarded by the gate-keepers who commission book reviews for journals in the social sciences, but their indifference deserves no censure. Oral History Project Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas, U.S.A. CHARLES T. MORRISSEY

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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