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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 18, 1976
Page
6
Review of Marguerite of Navarre's Heptameron Tales with Norman Lindsay illustrations. Notes historical context at the French court, themes of love and honor, and social critique. Praises Lindsay's art, Alec Hone’s scholarship, and the Werke's provocative tone despite some art flaws.
In Meanjin, Ross King surveys Greeks in Australia under The Dialectics of Culture. He cites a Melbourne claim as Greece’s largest Greek-speaking city outside its homeland and references reaction to a June lecture by Dr David Cox. The piece probes Greek identity, in-group trust, and potential for an Australian Greek literary synthesis amid broader cultural debates.
Patricia Rappolt notes Gollancz edition Echoes from the Macabre gathers eight of Patricia Highsmith style spine chillers including The Birds and The Blue Lenses. The collection underlines dated sensibilities in characters more than in prose.
An author reflects on being a devoted worker who finds work intrudes on life even during paid leave. The same people, problems, and calls follow to the doorstep or via telephone, proving detachment is elusive. The essay critiques a society that equates leisure with failure.
A diarist riffs on long service leave as a philosophical leisure state. He rails at universities for chasing Greeks and Ayn Rand ideals, contemplates Darwin and Tolstoy, and laments unmade use of leave while tracing time, work, and society. He notes the paradox: leisure bred by work, yet yielding no meaningful output.
A review of Robert and Suzanne Massie’s book on their family’s struggle with their son Bobby’s haemophilia. It outlines the parents’ view of illness, medical challenges, and the impact on daily life, schooling, and care, highlighting medical terms for lay readers and notable figures such as Dr Mario T. Bisordi and lobsterman Jim Greenlaw.
A lively critique of The Main Chance shows Ward’s television script instincts with fast scenes and sharp visuals. The central figure David Main is a brilliant London solicitor whose drive and ruthlessness collide with a troubled marriage and a costly custody battle.
The book by Samuel C. Florman argues engineers have an existential connection to their work despite tech driven critique. It reframes engineering as meaningful, not coldly rational, yet the reviewer finds flaws in lack of clear scope and controversial social assumptions.
A reviewer finds Jon Cleary’s Timber Copper a well plotted mystery set in the northwestern United States. Englishman John Random uncovers a forest copper plot while entangled with Grace Jardine, facing murder, skulduggery, and a polarizing finale that the critic deems weak yet still engaging.
A fragmented children's note appears to reference Sesame Street style content and unfamiliar phrases. The readable text centers on a playful learning theme with possible names or titles embedded in the garble. No clear event or outcome can be established from the fragments.
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