Five Days in June in East Berlin Struggle Featured
A review of Stefan Heym's 5 Days in June set during the 1953 East Berlin uprising, describing how workers clashed with a workers' government, the party bureaucracy, and Soviet tanks. The work contrasts Heym's communist ideals with Solzhenitsyn’s critique, noting publication bans and eventual cautious acceptance by GDR censors.
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Stefan Heym
Hodder and Stoughton
German Democratic Republic
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Russia
America
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Workers' Republic
Book review ridicules Elaine Morgan's urban decline argument
A harsh critical review targets Elaine Morgan's The Rise and Decline of Urban Civilisation. The writer mocks her Open University background, defends rational critique, and accuses the book of being an extended essay with digressions, misdirected wit, and questionable sourcing. The verdict: the reader never wants another Morgan work.
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The
Open University
Britain
Elaine Morgan
South Wales
Bertrand Russell
Nobel
Souvenir Press
Mathematical Carnival reviewed as entertaining Gardner puzzle collection
A review of Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Carnival from Scientific American notes the book compiles nineteen witty conundrums on topics from coin games to Escher trompe l oeil, outlines mental arithmetic dangers and reader enthusiasm, and praises lucid illustrations that invite widespread engagement. The piece highlights Gardner’s history of reader contributed ideas, the trompe l oeil analysis, and the humorous numerology chapter while warning against overlong puzzle pursuit and stressing accessible math fun.
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Scientific American
Martin Gardner
Gardner
M. C. Bacher
Escher
Fiess
Berlin
On a doubtful alpine slope a dull life of boys
A harsh review finds John Lehmann’s second novel inferior to his autobiography The Whispering Gallery. The story mirrors the author’s life with limited difference, focusing on homosexual adventures that never rise above dull, rambling prose. The critic praises Lehmann’s autobiographies for vivid subject matter and notes the book’s banality and repetitive bed by bed episodes.
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Hos
Fritz
Franzi
Rickie
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Whispering Gallery
Rosamund
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Auden
Yesterday's Sunshine recollections by Vent Morgan
Vent Morgan recalls a baker shop cake for his second birthday in a memoir of Edwardian days. The brief bio memoir focuses on amusing small boy memories rather than a full life, offering a tender, retrospective slice of childhood.
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Vent Morgan
Canberra disputants in 1820s colony politics and rights
Review of William Joy’s The Liberators Australia’s Struggle for Independence 1820 1855. The piece highlights prominent figures in early Canberra landholding circles opposed to trial by jury and political reform while noting Whitehall officials’ detachment. It describes the Governor’s fragile position amid public vilification and stresses Joy’s aim to present governors’ sympathy and struggles in a concise 160 page history.
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Duntroon
Samuel Jam
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Edward Smith Hall
Lake George
Thomas McQuaid
Wanniassa
Hanibal MacArthur
Monaro
William Westwood
John Stephen
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Australia
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Britain
Joy
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Sayings of Sorts by Thomas Bailey offers American slogans
A history professor collects sayings and one liners from American history into a 520 page book. It surveys Civil War verse patriotic slogans and temperance ditties, plus forces of America slogans and wartime exhortations. The reviewer notes Nixon and Kennedy quotes and laments a LeMay misattribution.
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America
Carolina
Eam
Forces OF America
Thomas A. Bailey
the Free Press
Collier Macmillan
New York
London
Curtis LeMay
John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
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