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Thursday. July lfi. IT.Q THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ri What BOOK PAGE is your body sayin Takiim the Bastille BODY LANGUAGE by Julius Fast. Evans, HOW TO BE AN" ABSOLUTELY SMASHING PUBLIC SPEAKER WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING and HOW TO BECOME A SITER SALESMAN, two American Heritage Attic Reprints, $2.95 each. Crime club WHO SHOT THE BULL by Bill Knox, Doubleday, "Who Shot The Bull" sounds like a strange name for a mystery story but actually Bill Knox's Crime Club selection starts out with a police search for whoever shot and killed a prize bull.

Two high-ranking Scottish police officers are sent in to try to find the killer largely because a policeman in a small town, near where the shooting occurred, is a prime suspect. Quite naturally, the Investigation of the killing of the bull leads to much more. There is a murder with the local police officer again the prime suspect and an involvement in a Scottish Nationalist movement headed locally by the owner of the bull. That Includes a dynamite plot. Inspectors Thane and Moss work it out eventually, aided by a gruff old medical examiner.

And it all adds up to a well done and exciting murder mystery. Harold Harrison 7 I hi 111 mented and hinghly readable. The author has painted a broad word picture of the Bastille and of the rev-olutionary era which spawned the revolt G. T. Silvers Romance THE PAST TENSE OF LOVE, by Elizabeth Cadell, Morrow, $5.95.

Kerry Moystyn, heroine of this airy novel, is a Doris Day sort of a girl. She was brought up by several doting aunts who reside in the English countryside and there is a bit of mystery in Kerry's past. As the story opens, she is about to embark upon what purports to be a business errand in France, but turns out to be an unexpected, revealing and romantic adventure. Who is the exotic Mad-Good for reading while under a hairdryer, or on the beach, or in a hammock. Marcia M.

Baker LA UlA FIG. 18: INDECISION FIG. 24: ATTRACTION FIG. 25: REPULSION A SERIES of public gestures displays the range of emotions available to a public speaker, according to HOW TO BE AN ABSOLUTELY SMASHING PUBLIC SPEAKER WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, an American Heritage Reprint from 1892. THE TAKING OF THE BASTILLE JULY 14, 1789, by Jacques Godechot, Charles Scribner's Sons, $9.95.

It is entirely fitting that Jacques Godechot's book, The Taking of the Bastille July 14, 1789, be published in July. It was on July 14, 1789 that approximately 1,000 Frenchmen stormed the infamous Bastille and freed its seven prisoners, thus triggering the capitulation of King Louis XVI and heralding the relatively bloodless initial stages of the French Revolution. (Feeling against the Bastille was so intense that within days of this attack on the fortress, it was demolished, stone by stone!) An unique aspect of Professor Godechot's book is his thesis that the French Revolution, which simmered for nearly two years prior to the eruption of 1789, was merely an exten-tion of the world-wide revolution pattern of the 18th century. To support his theory, Professor Godechot devotes considerable time to a discussion of the broad political, economic, social, and demographic aspects of the French Revolution. Discussed, also, are the riots and public violence present throughout Europe during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

A vivid description is given of 18th century Paris its police system, prisons, and facilities for distributing food. Further emphasized, by the author, are the rising prices, growing population, and fears of unemployment in the 18th century all of which predisposed citizens to disorder. Of course, as the title suggests, the author deals at great length and with meticulous detail the actual storming of the Bastille. Although Jacques Godechot's book is sober and academic, it is well docu on him by means of an Indirect word or command." His "slowness of thought" is emphasized by his brunette hair. It seems astounding that man could have relied on such foolish advise so re-ently as that.

For all man's time on this planet, how few years separate these struggle with Attention: INSULIN USERS There's an important message from B-D waiting for you with the druggist who has your prescriptions on file. Visit him this week. You'll be glad you did. No purchase is necessary. BECTONES you stand when you talk to your boss.

Do you keep a respectful distance of 7 feet or more, thereby acknowledging his superiority? Or do you stand close to his desk, or sit on it, or even walk around it? As you approach a superior you also approach his status until, by entering his personal territory, you challenge his authority. And then there's kinesics, which tells us that we look at each other during about 50ri of a conversation, that we nod when we are waiting for the other to speak, that, we wink and grin and squint and move our arms and our bodies in certain ways to communicate certain messages. Dr. Bird-whistell has been created an alphabet of facial movements, including eyelid movement, length of glance and so on. Psychologists, particularly those that practice Gestalt therapy, reply on body language to know whether a patient Is telling the truth or covering for himself.

Often body movements are contrary to what a person says verbally. They can also tell whether a patient wants help or not. Indeed a working knowledge of body language can be helpful to many people, doctors, social workers, even salesmen. But there are far too many variables In body language for it ever to become a science. Gestures change from culture to culture, race to race, family to family.

Each individual has different use ol gestures for each situation. Too much must be known about an individual's background and habits for anyone to ever apply body language as a definite yardstick. BEFORE WE become too enthusiastic about the possibilities of body language, perhaps we should take a look at two books that American Heritage has just reprinted. One, titled "How To Be An Absolutely Smashing Public Speaker Without Saying Anything," is reprinted from an 1892 instruction manual for orators. The book presents a drawing of a pose that the speaker is to strike for each possible emotion that he may express in a speech.

TO EXPRESS shame, for instance, we "cover our eyes." The head moves upward while the hand moves downward." Other emotions are more complex, need all the limbs and a series of illustrations to explain. The book illustrates "every feeling of the human heart" with some irreverent comments added by the present editor, Kristi Witker. In 1920 the best way to become a super salesman 8Dso trademark (the other book) was to read a potential client's personality by his physiognomy. If you wanted to appeal to to a man with a bulging forehead, flat brows, a small, sway-backed nose, a retreating mouth and a prominent chin, you had to "give him reasons and explanations as you go along," and "put pressure Author's BECH: A BOOK, by John I'pdike, Knopf, $5.95. A new work by John Updike is always an event, for Updike Is one of our best writers.

Yet because five of the seven parts here put together into what Updike calls "A Book" have appeared elsewhere namely, of course, in that in-periodical that exploits the classy provincialism of the world's biggest town this event Is something less than unpredictable. All of which means that readers who admire Updike have probably read most of this book. Thus the author has tried to turn this reprint into a quality experience by adding a spoofing preface, satirical bibliography, and whimsical appendix which seem slightly amateurish parodies of Nabakov's brilliant parodies. And a parody of a parody, perhaps, needless to add, can be dangerously close to no parody at all as it runs the risk of circling back to the original dullness. As a matter of fact, Updike is so good that he deservesand nicely survives a bit of carping criticism now and then.

This time he has valiantly dropped his guard by creating a hero who is much like Updike himself, a writer who has had many of Updike's traumatic experiences, such as being sent to Russia as a good-will token and such as having undertaken to en- lighten the masses via lectures (well paying). But Updike's Henry Bech is much more than an autobiographical projection. For one thing, Bech is gratuitously Jewish while Updike, as all in-people know, is a Christian. Or, if Bech is not "gratuitously" Jewish then Updike is being more than a little nasty about those contemporary novelists who have made the American novel seem to foreign critics always more or less kosher. Any way you look at it, a whole series of subtleties, most of which the intelligent and verbally dextrous Updike handles smoothly, follow as the result of the ambitious specifications drawn up for Henry Bech, the elaborate joke -book hero.

Bech is too bright not to suffer when among Philistines, but also too heroic to accept the facts of life, which include women and politicians. Often he seems eagerly and incurably new to all the games. As another matter of fact, the name of Updike's game about all the games is not sweet-smelling enough to print in a family newspaper. Many such spirited word-plays spice the life of this story-book, but since one is allowed to quote a minimum the rest of the space here is best filled with a sample extract from the cutesy preface in which the fictitious hero gives the real novelist permission to use his material: Save y2 off REGULAR PRICES OUR FAMOUS CLEARANCE SALE LIMITED QUANTITIES ARE AVAILABLE SO DON'T DELAY BY OWEN FINDSEN Enquirer Book Editor HE stands in the leaning against the mantel. Of all the people in the room he is obviously the most confident, his hips thrust forward, legs apart, thumbs hooked in his belt.

SHE sits with her legs crossed and her arms folded across her chest, inviolate. But when he looks at her with half closed eyes she holds his fiance an instant too long, inviting him to approach. He enters her personal zone, standing less than three feet from her. She invites him to sit by opening her arms. Their legs are crossed, far leg over near, letting everyone else in the room know that the conversation is private.

His voice is lower than it need be so that she must strain to hear him. He nods slightly when he bids her to speak. Involuntarily she mimics his expressions and gestures. What is said in words is not important until he touches her arm and whispers, "Lets go." This is a mating dance, one that has been preceded by a ritual preening by both parties. After generations of studying the courting rites of lower species, scientists have only recently begun to observe r.nd catalog these same activities in humans.

This is part of a new area of studies called "kinesics" and "proxemlcs," which are more likely to be called "Body Language" by laymen after Julius Fast's new book. The author claims that these studies constitute a "new science." They are not of course, any more than the social sciences or phrenology, but they do broaden man's knowledge of himself and are being used by scientists as a new tool toward understanding. "Body Language" is a report on various studies of man's ability to communicate without words. It examines gestures, expressions and uses of space. Man's use of space, or proxemlcs, applies the ideas of the territorial imperative to humans.

The material in "Body Language" comes from anthropologist Edward Hall's "The Silent Language" and "The Hidden Dimension," both available in paperback. These books should be read in the original for any real study of the subject. Kinesics, or uses of gesture and expression in communication is the work of one Doctor Ray Bird-whistell. whose name probably influenced him to become interested in animal communication. Proxemics concerns our use of space, the distances that people allow between them in public, social and intimate relationships.

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38: SHAME books from "Body Possibly in 50 or 100 years some enterprising publisher will publish a facsimile version of "Body Language" for the amusement of his readers and they can marvel at how far we've come in Just a few short years. success "Dear John," Bech writes, "if you must commit the artistic indecency of writing about a writer, better I suppose about me than about you. Except I wonder if it IS me, enough me, purely me. At first blush I cound like some gentlemanly Norman Mailer; then that London glimpse of SILVER hair glints more of gallant, glamorous Bellow, the King of the Leprechauns, than of stolid old homely yours truly. My childhood seems out of Alex Portnoy and my ancestral past out of I.

B. Singer. I get a whiff of Malamud in your city breezes, and am I paranoid to feel my "block" an ignoble version of the more or less noble renunciations of II. Roth, D. Fuchs, and J.

Salinger? Withal, something Waspish, theological, scared, and insulatingly ironical that derives, my wild surmise is, from you." If you can Identify all the allusions you win the right to enjoy Bech's struggle to survive the success of his one good book, and doubtless you will be able to appreciate the sharp caricatures that are intended to punish critics, pompous academics, and other enemies of creativity. But there's more than a touch of decadence here a goodly smear of it, really, that smudges John Updike himself. How honest should one be about the difficulty of being honest? John A. Weigcl VERTICAL 1. Chart 2.

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