Books: Wanted: Dream Man

A NEW IMAGE OF MAN (260 pp.)—Ardis Whitman — Appleton -Century -Crofts ($3.50).

"Boy, what a stinker you're going to be next year!" gloats the little boy in the cartoon, as he looks himself up in the child-care book. This is no joke to Author Whitman, who feels that, in living too much by the book and trying to fit himself into patterns, modern man has become a pretty frightening character.

Even before Johnny is in kindergarten, his parents anxiously tick off each signpost of normality, and once he is in school, his teachers want...

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