Tynan Behind Waterloo Station A candid theatre portrait
Margot Campbell profiles Kenneth Tynan at the National Theatre who traces his path from diary to criticism. He defends personalism in critique, contrasts Ionesco and Osborne, and explains two drama currents: psychological works and documentary reality, noting Brecht's influence and the push toward inner versus external drives in modern plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Station
Britishational Theatre
Margot Campbell
England
George Bernard Shaw
Enneth Tynan
National Theatre
Tynan
Beckett
Ionesca
the Observer
Ionesco
Ser Cagis
Ple
John Osborne
Pope
John
Osborne
Peter Brooke
Bertold Brecht
John Arden
Vonnegut
Voltaire
Korea
Cressida
Esme
Emma
Dan
Felix
Cressie
Prehistory books judged for insight and scope
Review covers Grahame Clark and Stuart Piggott's Prehistoric Societies and Richard Frye's The Heritage of Persia. Clark and Piggott presented a structured two million year European prehistory, integrating social prehistory with ethnography and ancient records, while Frye surveys from the 6th century BC to the 6th AD with Ockham’s razor logic and broad literary reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grahame Clark
Stuart Piggott
Hutchinson
Price
Persia
Richard N. Frye
Mentor
Clark
Piggott
Australia
New Guinea
Tropics
France-Cantabria
Australasia
America
Africa
Sahara
Wear East
Europe
Western Asia
Frye
Okeam
Not Quite Voltaire and After Julius: Modern Satire Mixed
A review contrasts Kurt Vonnegut Jrs Rosewater with Elizabeth Jane Howards After Julius. It lauds Vonnegut yet critiques Rosewater as propagating American materialism through comic irony. The analysis pivots to a breezy English house party novel, noting Cresida and Emma amid affair entanglements and a final, underscored, uncertain ending.
Colossus and Sarkhan review by Willan Lederer and Eugene Burdick
A critical look at Colossus a giant automatic brain that takes control of its makers and guides world policy with ruthless efficiency. Sarkhan, the authors earlier work The Ugly American, is examined as a political novel with American missteps in Southeast Asia and a defense of reformist, pragmatic solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. F. Jones
Rupert Hart-Davis
Sarkhan
Willan J. Lederer
Eugene Burdick
Guardian
Haidho
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia
Champa
McCauley
Prince Lin
Coldstream
Tue
Hajn
Defence
Hobson
US Intelligence Agency
Ngo Dinh Diem
Peking
Mate from Mars Down to Earth by Patricia Wrightson
A tourist from space lands in real world Sydney backstreets and befriends a human boy named Martin. The green glow alien can eat in ovens and bags and speaks Australian, while unintended chaos and discarded money suburban scenes unfold. The book blends vivid urban detail with a thin plot and mixed drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Backstreet Sydney
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Mr Tynan
Aene
Kenneth Tynan
Breuil
Childe
Homo
Jean Battersby
GOD Bless
IR Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Jonathan Cape
Tullius
Elizebeth Jane Howard
Graham Greene
Rosewater Town
Rosewater County
Fire Brigade
Rhode Island
Rosewater
Julius
Fsme
Dunkirk
Dostoyevsky
By Helen Brown
Grand Inquisitor
Whistle
Willie
Ezra Jack Keats
Bodley Hem
Mars
Patricia Wrightson
Margaret Horder
Sydney
Martin
Taronga Park
Spaceman
United Nations
Outer Space
Evertheless
ZYG Bookrimming Works
Fry
Ism Street
Fyshwick
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