The Discipline of Power by George W Ball overview
A critical review of George Ball's book The Discipline of Power. The work examines Ball as a key figure in a State Department circle promoting Atlantic unity, NATO plans, and policies toward the Third World, while tracing the decline of his influence after 1965 and the shift of US focus to Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Ball
the Bodley Head
George Ball
Kennedy
Johnson
State Department
America
Western Europe
Soviet Union
Western Germany
United States
Atlantic Unity
MLF
Asia
North America
Europe
Japan
China
Ball
Soe Arica
Latin America
Southeast Asia
North
Atlantic Alliance
Germany
France
Britain
Mr Ball
United Nations
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
The Race Review Smolders Over Brophy Play
HOPE HEWITT critiques The Race by Jonathan Cape, noting Miss Brophy’s hostile preface and a failed first play Burglar from 1967. The review cites a stiff priced edition and a two part introduction where Brophy vents resentment toward critics and recycles feminist arguments.
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Jonathan Cape
London
Brigid Brophy Pastiching Shaw Falls Short of Craft
The review compares Brigid Brophy's play Iss Brroby to George Bernard Shaw, noting echoes of Shaw’s battles and epigrams but finds Brophy lacking Shaw’s conciseness and decisive grounding. The Preface and play meander through topics like sex and class while failing to establish firm dramatic action, producing an opined, diffuse college-room discussion rather than a sharp, crafted drama.
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Newnham College
St Hugh's
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Concrete
Etheredge
Coward
Albee
Miss Brophy
Verwoerd A Polarizing Architect of Apartheid and Power
Hendrik Verwoerd, a key designer of apartheid, left South Africa with a contested legacy. This piece traces his rise from Stellenbosch to prime ministership, his anti-British and pro Afrikaner stance, and how his policies reshaped race relations, prompting questions about the future of native Africans and urban whites under lingering discrimination.
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Hendrik Verwoerd
South Africa
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Amsterdam
Hepple
Lord Kitchener
Verwoerd
Hendrik
Cape Town
Bulawayo
Rhodesia
Brandfort
Orange Free State
Stellenbosch University
Litk
Oxford
Hamburg
Leipzig
Berlin
Stellenbosch
Purified Nationalist Party
the Broederbond
Die Transvaler
Smuts
Commonwealth
Not Turner and Stop-Time reviewed as social documents
A critic argues Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner is a social document more than a true novel, mixing history with narration of slavery and racial tension in America. Frank Conroy’s Stop-Time is praised as impressive autobiography with strong character sketches and dialogic recall, even as it reads like fiction.
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Turner
Nat
Styron
Nat Turner
Mr Styron
Frank Conroy
Florida
New York
Europe
Denmark
Paris
Conroy
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Hope Hewitt
Brigid Brophy
Alexander Hepple
Labor Party
William Styron
Frank Head
Badley
Saigon
Vietnam
Deland — Time
Dr Dolittle” Lofting
Peter Duck
Winnie-The- Pooh
Milne
Pan
Topline
Macy Men
Ladybird
Barbara Drew
Discovery Books Pr· Ltd
Cyril Pearl
Morrison
Peking
Australian Book Review
John Hughes
Sukarno
Fubbicas Communist Party
Angus and Robertson
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