Bible Belief Challenge Sparks Canberra Revival Centre
The Canberra Revival Centre condemns modern church doubt and urges return to early Christian beliefs. It cites leaders who question biblical authority, condemns a book undermining scripture, and asserts healing and tongues as signs of true faith. Sundays 7.45 p.m. at Corroboree Park Youth Centre. Inquiries telephone J4416 7/63.
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Books on dolls sewing art dinosaurs and ancient Rome reviewed
A survey highlights FOR CHILDREN Variety In Plenty Dod's Dressmaking by Winifred Butler as a practical doll sewing handbook with many patterns. It also reviews Drawing The Human Figure In Action by Arthur Zaidenberg and Digging For Dinosaurs by W E Swinton, alongside Every day Life In Ancient Rome by F R Cowell, noting strengths and limits.
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Winifred Butler
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Bluebottle and Ideology in Valeriy’s Soviet Tales
A critic surveys the book The Bluebottle and Red and Black by Ivan Valeriy, noting its pessimistic portrait of Soviet life. The stories condemn indifference to individuality, but the analysis finds them didactic and underpowered, lacking fully realized characters or dramatic human depth.
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Dostoevsky
Peter the Great as Portrayed by Ian Grey
The review lauds Ian Grey's Peter the Great for presenting verifiable facts without overinterpretation. It notes Grey lets readers form their own views while illustrating the clash between a formidable ruler and a resistant populace, and praises the biography as both insightful and well sourced.
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Extreme detachment shadows new novel by leading author
The reviewer notes Flesh by Martin Seckher and Warburg Ltd disappoints, portraying Pyp malion and Culatey in reverse and Promiscuous Nancy marrying Marcus to mold him before he misuses his skills on a German au pair girl. Detachment in this work is extreme, with Marcus and Nancy reduced to puppets.
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Marcus
Nancy
Published translations of two classic works by Valeriy
The listing notes The Bluebottle translated by Thomas Jones and Red and Black translated by David Alger with Collins and Harvill editions priced at 20 shillings.
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David Alger
Ivan Valeriy
Collins and Harvill
Australian Short Stories and World War II Secret Service Tale
A review of O0KS LA CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORIES edited by Hadgraft and Wilson, praising thirty five stories by Australian authors from Lang to White. It also covers THE QUIET CANADIAN about Sir William Stephenson’s WWII secret service role and notes DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANGELS and SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA, plus a Canberra author Cheshires Garema Place Canberra City mention.
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Richard Wilson
John Lang
Hal Porter
Patrick White
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H. Montgomery Hyde
Stephenson
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America
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South Africa
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