Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071

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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was the editorial opinion of the Boston Cooking School Magazine in May, 1914. [Woman's Problems]. Disillusionment with easy answers is the theme of several Vol. 071 readings [On Thinking for Oneself; Limitations of Truth-Telling; On Demagogues]. Rebellion and war, heroics and aftermath, are treated in Alexander at Gordium; Before Grant Won His Stars; Draft Riots in Wisconsin; The Truth About Greece; and Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa. Humor provides relief in a lighthearted look at home heating [The Furnace]; bicycling [A Despicable Trick; Healthy But Not Social], grammar [The Woman's Press Club] and The Beauty of Unpunctuality. Exploration then and now is contrasted in Tasman Explores Australia and A California Motor Tour. The arts--literature, drawing, and the cinema--are celebrated in Mary Pickford's Beginnings, Rendering Reflections in Window Glass, and On the Tomb of Keats. Lastly, a biography of British fossil finder Mary Anning (1795-1847) throws light not only on ichthyosaurs, but on the remarkable life of a self-taught woman scientist. - Summary by Sue Anderson

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1 01 - Alexander at Gordium 5:36
2 02 - Before Grant Won His Stars 36:09
3 03 - A California Motor Tour (1909) 13:01
4 04 - A Despicable Trick 1:29
5 05 - Draft Riots in Wisconsin During the Civil War 6:31
6 06 - The Furnace 10:10
7 07 - Healthy But Not Social 2:02
8 08 - Limitations of Truth-Telling 23:48
9 09 - Mary Anning, the Fossil Finder 20:38
10 10 - On Demagogues, in The American Democrat (1838) 13:40
11 11 - On Thinking For Oneself (excerpt) 28:31
12 12 - Rendering Reflections in Window Glass 19:23
13 13 - Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality 11:22
14 14 - Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa (1921) 1:13:25
15 15 - Tasman Explores Australia 17:40
16 16 - The Tomb of Keats 8:13
17 17 - The True Story of Mary Pickford's Beginning 20:57
18 18 - The Truth About Greece (1917) 35:02
19 19 - Woman's Press Club 2:14
20 20 - Woman's Problems (1914) 3:38