Creative America by John F. Kennedy and Others. Trident Press, $5.95.
The Culture Consumers by Alvin Toffler. St. Martin’s Press, $5.00.
The Arts in Society, Edited by Robert N. Wilson. Prentice-Hall, $9.00.
Commitment to Culture by Frederick Dorian. University of Pittsburgh Press, $10.00.
In Faust, one of Goethe’s characters, the naive, gullible young scholar Wagner, praises the grandeur of his century, of his contemporary society which had “so herrlich weitgebracht.” Today, in this country, we have many applauders who will tell you that America has “wonderfully progressed,” particularly in the realm of the arts. From the statements in the volume Creative America—it was compiled for the proposed national center for the performing arts in Washington—one might think that we have reached the Golden Age.
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