Symbol of a generation in Sagan diary review
A Paris review discusses Françoise Sagan's 1957 car crash and hospitalization, framing her as a symbol of postwar disillusionment. The diary extracts, translated with critique, explore mood swings, existential dread, and the clinic’s depersonalizing setting, while noting Sagan's restrained prose and the illustrator Buffon’s compelling images.
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Paris
Ennl
England
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de Quincy
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Buffon
Heine
Criticism with a veneer of science in The Dark Descent review
The reviewer critiques Michael Larsen's The Dark Descent, arguing it cloaks analysis in science, highlights Cary themes, and shows cautious, inductive methods. The piece praises some linguistic flair but finds the critique dull, overabstract, and too enamored with theory, with questionable comparisons to philosophy and social science.
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Larsen
Cwey
Africa
Mise Mahood
Esgellene Ile Sly Ar
Atviesn
Alice Patedl
Langner on Shaw and the Theatre Guild's early years
A critical look at Lawrence Langner’s reminiscences of Shaw, the Washington Square Players, and the Theatre Guild. The reviewer notes Langner’s focus on business dealings, cablegrams, and meetings, while challenging his interpretive bias and questions left unexplored about Shaw’s politics and art.
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Lawrence Langner
Washington Square Players
Theatre Guild
New York
Shaw
Players
Mild
Jeanbreak Hooke
Methuselah
Langner
Guild
Heartbreak House
Langners
Lanuner
Shaw enigma and Langner critique of Shaw works
Lawrence Langner assesses Shaw and Langner’s writings on spelling reform and the Shaw plays. He notes the difficulty of evaluating Shaw’s political thought and cites manuscript sheets in Yale’s Sterling Library. The addendum reprints Shaw’s 1935 Theatre Guild article on funding the Guild Theatre.
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Hay Geneva
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Yale Sterling Library
Taingner Suegesigd
Shaw
Devinc Ee
Theatre Guild
Guild Theatre
Trangner
Winng Ary
Arenotype
Tyrone Guthrie
Frail biography of James Ruse born in Cornwall in 1760
The piece reviews Clifford Tolchard’s The Life and Times of James Ruse, noting the half page portrait in The Australian by Tolchard and the book’s mix of plausible speculation and errors. It covers Ruse’s transportation to Australia, status as Australia’s first farmer, family trials, a failed Dalvedt, Hawkesbury hardships, and his death in 1837, while criticizing myths about Botany Bay overcrowding and some editorial lapses.
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T . Johnson
Elvismlion
Cary
Althor
Sendere
Larsen
Aanan
Shaw
James Ruse
Ate Wins
Cornwall
Avsipalft
Waler
New Holland
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Windsor
Rave
Botany Bay
Tolchard
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Gurid
Lin
Ruse
Howard
Comal
Launceston
Tolenard
Nowhere City review highlights sex and social values
A critical appraisal of The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie, arguing the book’s sexual content overshadows its portrayal of Los Angeles society. The critic notes strong narrative technique and a compelling cast but questions the moral purpose and the social pressures shaping the characters. Also mentions related titles and publication details.
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Nowhere City
Alison
Luke
Ps Angeles
Lurie
Tao
We People
Boston
Electron Rm i
Los Angeles
New England
Dw0rie
Novelty Special Shake the Golden Bouge at Sale
AG Hunger Ford lists a novelty item sale with regular price 26 now discounted by Brian Fagen. Nanay ait Sate ee Hane COMES, THERT GOES, Wiliam Saroyam referenced. Normally ANE, sale price 7k.
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AG Hunger Ford
Brian Fagen
Nanay Ait
Wiliam Saroyam
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