Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks

STUDIES IN INTERPRETATION. Edited by Esther M. Doyle and Virginia Hastings Floyd. Amsterdam: Rodopi N.V., 1972 (also available at the SCA National Office) pp. 362. $22.00; paper $15.50.

THE MAKING OF HOMERIC VERSE: THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF MILMAN PARRY. Edited and with an Introduction by Adam Parry. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971; pp. lxii+483. $19.25.

THE PERCEPTION AND EVOCATION OF LITERATURE. By Leland H. Roloff. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1973; pp. 376. $7.50.

INTERPRETATION: AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE. By Joanna H. Maclay and Thomas O. Sloan. New York: Random House, 1972; pp. xv+398. $8.95.

THE SPEECHES IN VERGIL'S AENEID. By Gilbert Highet. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. ix+380. $14.50.

FILMGUIDE TO La Passion De Jeanne D'Arc. By David Bordwell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973; pp. vii+83. $5.00; paper $1.75.

FILMGUIDE TO The Grapes of Wrath. By Warren French. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973; pp. vii+87. $5.00; paper $1.75.

FILMGUIDE TO 2001: A Space Odyssey. By Carolyn Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973; pp. vii+87. $5.00; paper $1.75.

FILMGUIDE TO Psycho. By James Naremore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973; pp. vii+87. 55.00; paper $1.75.

FILMGUIDE. TO The General. By E. Rubinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973; pp. vii+83. $5.00; paper $1.75.

FOCUS ON THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Edited and with Introduction by Fred Silva. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1971; pp. vii+184. $5.95; paper $2.45.

THE PEOPLE'S FILMS: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT MOTION PICTURES. By Richard Dyer MacCann. Introduction by A. William Bluem. New York: Hastings House, 1973; pp. xviii+238, $11.50; paper $6.75.

THE POLITICS OF BROADCAST REGULATION. By Erwin G. Krasnow and Lawrence D. Longley. New York: St. Martins Press, 1973: pp. vii+150. $8.50.

THE POLITICS OF BROADCASTING: ALFRED duPONT‐COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SURVEY OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM: 1971–1972. Edited and with Introduction by Marvin Barrett. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973; pp. vi+247. $5.95.

THE MASS MEDIA: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE. By Stuart Hood. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1972; pp. 96. Paper $2.75.

PEACE MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA Edited and with Introduction by Charles Chatfield. New York: Schocken Books, 1973; pp. xxxii+ 191. $7.50; paper $3.95.

SOCIAL CONFLICT AND SOCIAL MOVE. MENTS. By Anthony Oberschall. Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1973; pp. xi+371. $9.95.

A MINORITY OF MEMBERS: WOMEN IN THE U.S. CONGRESS. By Hope Chamberlain. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973; pp. ix+374; $10.00.

WOMEN AND THE “EQUAL RIGHTS” AMENDMENT: SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, 91st. CONGRESS. Edited by Catherine Stimpson in conjunction with the Congressional Information Service, Washington, D.C. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1972; pp. xvi+538. $12.95.

AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR HISTORIANS. By Roderick Floud. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973; pp. ix+220. $7.50.

THE MIND OF ADOLF HITLER: THE SECRET WARTIME REPORT. By Walter C. Langer. Foreword by William L. Langer. Afterword by Robert G. L. Waite. New York: Basic Books, 1972; pp. x+269. $10.00.

WIE HITLER SPRACH UND SCHRIEB: ZUR PSYCHOLOGIE UND PROSODIK DER FASCHISTISCHEN RHETORIK. By Cornelius Schnauber. Frankfurt (M): Athenäum Verlag (Schriften zur Literatur, 20), 1972; pp. x+149. Paper 12.80 DM.

BELIEF, LANGUAGE, AND EXPERIENCE. By Rodney Needham. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973; pp. xvii+269. $10.00.

LAW, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION. By Walter Probert. Foreword by Harold P. Lasswell. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1972; pp. xxviii+376. $13.50.

LANGUAGE: CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES. Edited by Joseph A. DeVito. Englewood‐Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1973; pp. xii+307. $8.95: paper $4.95.

COMING TO TERMS WITH LANGUAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY. Edited by Raymond D. Liedlich. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1973; pp. xi+289. Paper $4.95.

THE MODIFICATION OF LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR. Edited and with Introduction by Benjamin B. Lahey. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1973; pp. xiii+322. $11.95; paper $6.95.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH COMMUNICATION. Edited by Fred E. Jandt. Foreword by Gerald R. Miller. New York: Harper &; Row, Publishers, Inc., 1973; pp. xv+473. Paper $5.25.

NEW TECHNIQUES OF PERSUASION. By Gerald R. Miller and Michael Burgoon. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973; pp. vii+120. Paper $2.50.

THE HUMAN TRANSACTION: FACETS, FUNCTIONS, AND FORMS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. By R. Wayne Pace and Robert R. Boren. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresnun and Company, 1973; pp. xvii+398. $5.95.

FACE TO FACE: THE SMALL GROUP EXPERIENCE AND INTERPERSONAL GROWTH. By Gerard Egan. Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1973; pp. viii+162. Paper $3.50.

COMMUNICATION IN PULPIT AND PARISH. By Merrill R. Abbey. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1973; pp. 237. $7.95.

BASIC READINGS IN COMMUNICATION THEORY. Edited and with Introduction by C. David Mortensen. New York: Harper &; Row Publishers, 1973; pp. vii+358. Paper $4.95.

COMMUNICATING INTERPERSONALLY: A READER. Edited by R. Wayne Pace, Brent D. Peterson and Terrence R. Radcliffe. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1973; pp. xi+272. Paper $4.95.

CONCEPTS IN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Jimmie D. Trent, Judith S. Trent and Daniel J. O'Neill. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1973; pp. xii+319. Paper $5.25.

THE STUDY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION. By Nan Lin. Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, Inc., 1973; pp. xiii+247. Paper $3.25.

GUERRILLA THEATRE: SCENARIOS FOR REVOLUTION. By John Weisman. New York: Anchor Press, 1973; pp. 216. Paper $3.50.

STAGE DESIGN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SINCE 1960. Edited by René Hainaux and Christiane Fraipont with technical advice by Yves‐Bonnat. Foreword by Paul‐Louis Mignon. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1973; pp. 239. $39.95.

EDUCATIONAL THEATRE MANAGEMENT. By John E. Clifford. Skokie, Illinois: National Textbook Company, 1972; pp. 236. $9.95.     

The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda

The Nazis justified their attempt to exterminate the Jews by claiming that they were only defending themselves against Jewish plans to destroy Germany and its population. I show how the Nazis used the same the same words to discuss both claims, and how they argued that just as the Jews were serious about exterminating Germany, they were equally serious about exterminating the Jews. Since the argument for annihilating the Jews was hard to make in the mass media, the Nazis put it most strongly in word-of-mouth propaganda using speakers and public meetings.     

THE RELATIONSHIP OF PARENTING STYLES TO COMMITMENT TO THE CHURCH AMONG YOUNG ADULTS

A survey of 653 Seventh‐day Adventist young adults, randomly distributed throughout the United States and Canada, compared their perceptions of the way their parents treated them as children with their present commitment to the church. Warm, caring behaviors from parents predicted strong religious commitment when the children entered adulthood. In the case of the mother it also predicted regularity in worship attendance. Of the four styles of parenting, “affectionate constraint,” a mixture of care and control, produced the largest percentage of enthusiastic members and the fewest drop‐outs.     

Roman Catholic Clergy who have sexually abused children: Their perceptions of their developmental experience

Objectives

There is a growing consensus in the research and theoretical literature that vulnerability to the perpetration of child sexual abuse appears to involve the offenders’ early developmental experience. This study explored the perceptions of nine clerical child sex offenders in relation to their developmental experience.

Methods

Nine participants were selected on the basis of being priests or brothers who had sexually abused children. Participants were identified from a larger group of clergy who were currently attending or had previously attended an institution that provides therapeutic intervention for sex offenders and aged between 38 and 75 years. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify common themes in the participants’ accounts.

Conclusions

Many of these themes are reflected in the existing literature but what appears to distinguish the participants in the present study is their experience of an ideology within clerical training that prevented remediation and compounded earlier psychosocial and psychosexual difficulties.     

A research note on supportive and defensive communication: An empirical study of three verbal interpersonal communication variables

The concepts of supportive and defensive affective states are ubiquitous in the field of interpersonal communication, but rarely have any specific verbal causes of these states been examined. This study investigates the effect on supportiveness and defensiveness of three verbal variables: (1) provisional versus certainty verbs, (2) positive versus negative feedback content, and (3) ownership of statements by the use of “I‐You” pronoun constructions. The study found that provisional verbs are seen as more supportive in negative statements and certainty verbs more supportive in positive statements, positive feedback produces more supportiveness than negative, and literal “I‐You” pronoun constructions are seen as mare supportive in both positive and negative statements. No difference was seen in subjects on the basis of gender.     

On the Inspiration of Architecture

Progressive education is at the cross-roads. Which it will take—the highway or the byway-only the future holds. I am no seer, nor do I write in prophetic vein, but I do believe that it were well for us to stop and take stock of ourselves, as Matthew Arnold used to say, before we hastily make a choice.     

Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and the Rasch Model to Assess Measurement Invariance in a High Stakes Reading Assessment

The psychometric properties and multigroup measurement invariance of scores across subgroups, items, and persons on the Reading for Meaning items from the Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) were assessed in a sample of 778 seventh-grade students. Specifically, we sought to determine the extent to which score-based inferences on a high stakes state assessment hold across several subgroups within the population of students. To that end, both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Rasch (1980 Rasch, G. 1980. Probabilistic models for some intelligence and attainment tests, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (Original work published 1960).  [Google Scholar]) models were used to assess measurement invariance. Results revealed a unidimensional construct with factorial-level measurement invariance across disability status (students with and without specific learning disabilities), but not across test accommodations (resource guide, read-aloud, and standard administrations). Item-level analysis using the Rasch Model also revealed minimal differential item functioning across disability status, but not accommodation status.     

Model specification searches in structural equation modeling using tabu search

This article introduces an alternative structural equation modeling (SEM) specification search approach that is based on the Tabu search procedure. Using data with known structure, the performance of the Tabu search is illustrated. The results demonstrate the capabilities of the Tabu search procedure for conducting specification searches in SEM.     

Benefits of the Michiana Daily Mathtracks Programme for students living in poverty

This paper summarizes results from a math intervention implemented in a high-poverty urban community. Over 7,300 students from kindergarten to 4th grade in 1 low-socioeconomic-status school district participated in the study. Students from 13 different schools (36 different classroom) participated in the treatment. Comparisons were made to purposely selected control-group schools and all other students in the district. The aim of the intervention was to help early elementary-age students living in poverty learn essential math facts and master basic computational skills as a foundation for improving their math ability. The study used a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design with control and treatment groups. Achievement for both groups was compared to that of the school district as a whole, with analysis disaggregated by poverty status. The results found positive gains in the treatment group's math achievement at every grade level, transcending differences in socioeconomic status.