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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1970
Page
5
Readable scraps show hints of mentions of items and events but lack clarity. The fragmentary text references time keeping and possible listings or notes, with insufficient context to determine precise people places or actions.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a phrase with oddly spaced letters and missing context. The readable portion includes garbled forms resembling a name or label but lacks clear entities or events to identify a broader story.
A compact review of Alan Herbert Heinemann’s memoir The gadfly of bureaucracy, covering APH’s career as journalist, dramatist, reformer, and critic of copyright law. It notes his wartime service, inventive mislaw cases, and the book’s broad, lively but sprawling scope, with emphasis on his impact on British literature and legal thought.
A critical overview of Fysh’s Wings to the World detailing the postwar aviation crisis, airline and manufacturer struggles, and Qantas governance under national trends. It notes Fysh’s role in founding Qantas, wartime aviation, and his two volumes completing a trilogy on airline history.
DR Ramson edits a 1970 ANU Press volume surveying Australian and New Zealand English, Papua New Guinea pidgin, and migrant speech. The book argues spoken forms dominate over written, advocating a scientific phonetic alphabet to record about 40 sounds and regional variants.
Diane Cilento's Hybrid centers on Matthew Jackson originator of a mixed nationality sect, a visionary seeking utopian earth in Kew Gardens and arousing betrayal and disillusion. The volume blends a vivid fictional arc with extended notes on Australian and New Zealand English, linguistics history, and dialect studies, arguing both bold vision and critical limits.
Francis King’s It would be easy to say now that as soon as I saw Antonio I fell in love with him. The narrator Dick Thompson, a midcareer novelist, narrates a painful unrequited attraction to Antonio, a beautiful but self centered Italian lodger. Antonio’s social whirl clashes with Dick’s quiet writing life as he skirts a love that cannot be returned. The novel aims to explore homosexual longing with a heterosexual object of desire, yet criticism notes tonal lapses and a tendency toward amusement over pity in crucial confrontations.
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