New Directions in Japanese Architecture by Robin Boyd
A compact critique arguing Japanese architects face a space driven modernism while balancing tradition and Western influence. It notes mega structures, timber motifs, and Eurasian fusion shaped by density, training abroad, and glossy magazines. The book surveys scales, philosophies, and future urban planning implications for Australia and beyond.
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Robin Boyd
Studio — Vista
London
le Cobusier
Louis Kahn
Paul Rudolf
Europe
United States
Australia
Boyd
Lee Kuan Yew studied as model leader in Josey book
A 1968 critique reviews a volume of Lee Kuan Yew speeches and a brief life sketch. It notes uneven biographical detail, gaps on pre politics and PAP splits, and limited context with business and Chinese communities. The portrait portrays a pragmatic, highly efficient PM, a professorish intellect, and a ruler with both strong discipline and residual tensions over despotism.
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Josey
Lee Kuan Yew
Mr Lee
Singapore
Tee
People’s Action Party
Dr Goh
Barison
PAP
Nanyang University
Lee
Indonesia
Philippines
Plato
University of Singapore
Failure of a formula A Card From Morocco review
Robert Shaw's new novel set in Spain follows Lewis and Slattery as they turn casual bar encounters into consuming fantasies. The work aims at inner motives and moral questions but fails to engage readers, despite sharp Spain imagery and plausible dialogue.
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Mr Shaw
Morocco
Spain
Lewis
Jean
Slattery
Grass
Epp
Social Democratic Party
The Roman Mould of the Australian Catholic Church
John N Molony argues Catholic history in Australia has matured while Protestant histories lag. Molony, a history lecturer at the Australian National University and former priest, presents a scholarly study in the academic critical tradition with a foreword by Manning Clark.
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John N. Molony
Melbourne University Press
Manning Clark
Australia
Molony
Australian National University
Formation of Catholic Church in Australia in Mid 1800s
The text outlines a biographical arc from a priest’s career in Boston to his return to Ballarat in 1954 and release from priestly obligations. It notes postgraduate study at Propaganda College, a shift to marriage, and a book based on a PhD dissertation about early Australian Catholicism. It highlights Polding and Cardinal Cullen and the papal era shaping Romeward directions after the loss of the papal states and dogma definitions during Pope Pius IX’s reign.
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Propaganda College
Rome
Boston
Massachusetts
Ballarat
Australia
Polding
Sydney
Cardinal Cullen
Pius IX
Papal States
Poems of Grass and Other Modern Poets Review
A compact critique of Penguin Modern Poets 13 including Gunther Grass Selected Poems and New Poems, Vasko Popa Selected Poems, Charles Bukowski Philip Lamantia and Harold Norse. The piece assesses Grass’s surreal and political stance, Popa’s grotesque sequences, and Bukowski’s blunt style, with context on their literary aims and social engagement.
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Gunter Grass
Penguin Books
Vasko Popa
Penguin Modern Poets
Charles Bukowski
Philip Lamantia
Harold Norse
SDP
Kleckerburg
Grass
Penguin
Notable Penguin Paperbacks Attract Attention
Four Penguin paperbacks are highlighted for their origins in hardcover fame. Sir Robert Menzies Afternoon Light documents his Australian political career, priced at $145. Norman Mailer Miami and the Siege of Chicago covers 1968 conventions, priced at $1.51. A Flag on the Island collects 11 stories by Naipaul, price 5 cents. The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, edited by Guido Waldman, spans medieval to modern works with five translated pieces, price $1.00.
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Sir Robert Menzies
Cassell
Sir Robert
Miami
Chicago
Norman Mailer
Penguin
Sacchetti
Boccaccio
Giraldi
Verga
d'Annunzio
Pirandello
Pavese
Guido Waldman
L. We
Wavell and Fowles Featured in Mixed Message Catalog
A catalog listing diversas items from books and Australian life. Includes The Dawn of Time by Ainslie Roberts and Charles Mountford, Wavell biography by John Connell, French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, Men in Groups by Lionel Tiger, and several Australian nature titles with prices. Garema Place, Civic Centre, phone 491844.
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Ainslie Roberts
Charles P. Mountford
Garema Place
Civic Centre
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Peninsular
Malaya
Joseyr
Cotton Mather
Roger Williams
Williams
By Suzanne Hayes
Robert Shaw
Chatto and Windus
India
Tphe
By Geoff Page
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Hughes
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ZYG
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Wavell
John Connell
Chiang Kin-Shek
Stalin
Nehru
General Stilwell
Hungadier Orde Wingate
Churchill
John Fowles
Lionel
Tiger
Shosa
Periwinkle
Keith Davey
Denney Cione
Mervyn Millett
John Child
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