Britain Declining to Portugal Level in New Book Review
A critical review discusses Britain slipping toward Portugal in a 352 page work by Briton Glyn Ones and Michael Ames. It argues a century of decline in education and industry, citing low science uptake, weak productivity, and class bias in management, while urging productive bargaining and tech-focused reform.
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John Harmson
Australian Academy of Science
Lord Snow
New South Wales
Great Britain
BBC
Portugal
Andrew Car
Negie
Britain
New York
London
Alan Flanders
Cecil King
Daily Mirror
King
Institute of Directors
Germany
Canada
Holland
Iron Mountain
Australia
Snowy Mountains
HEC
Tasmania
Philosophy made a best seller AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL VOL I
This engrossing overview traces Bertrand Russell from 1914 to 1944, noting his pacifism and prison, travels through Russia and Asia, and later life in the United States and Britain. It highlights his controversial views, journalistic gifts, and enduring wit, with key correspondents and personal shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertrand Russell
Allen and Unwin
USA
Dora Black
New York
City College
Philadelphia
Britain
Lord Russell
Bigamist
Trinity
Russell
America
Russia
Wells
Hitler
Joseph Conrad
D. H. Lawrence
G. B. Shaw
Henri Barbusse
Laski
C. K. Ogden
Wittgenstein
Malinowski
Rutherford
Einstein
Emma Goldman
Eliot
Bertie
Dad
Church
Frieda
Lawrence
A. W. Whitehead
Whitehead
Harvard
Pat” Spence
Soviet Russia
Dora
Poet of man s regrets poetry volume two reviewed in Australia
A critique of Gwen Harwood aka Miriam Stone Walter Lehmann and Francis Geyer with focus on Poems volume two. The essay traces Harwood s musical influences and dual identity, framing her work as elegiac therapy. It discusses the three movement structure and themes of memory longing and modern suburbia. It notes the poet s Australian voice and tension between culture and philistinism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Stone
Walter Lehmann
Francis Geyer
Brisbane
Brisbane Girls’ Grammar
All Saints Church
Tasmania
Rex Hobcroft
Larry Sitsky
Professor Krote
Krote
Gwen Harwood
Lehmann- Geyer-Harwood-Stone
Westerly
Vivian Smith
A. D. Hope
Rosemary Dobson
James McCauley
Vincent Buckley
Bulletin
Douglas Stewart
Nancy Cato
the Thrush
Eric Rolls
Stewart
Cato
Rolls
Arts Club
Handel
Harwood
Tennyson
Eden
Secret Speech to CPSU Document Reprints
A catalog entry notes several books including Alistair MacLean's thriller and T H Rigby's Stalin biography. It lists The Stalin Dictatorship by Rigby and Fraffly Well Spoken How to Speak the Language of London's West End by Affer Beck Lauder with prices.
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Stalin
T. H. Rigby
Kirushchen
Ith Congress
CPSU
Fraffly
London
West End
Afferbeck Lauder
Nightingale fairytale and two other picture books review
A concise critics note surveys Hans Christian Andersen The Nightingale translated by Evan Le Gallienne and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Mary Calhoun The Thieving Dwarfs retold with Janet McCaffery art, and Joan Woodberry Ash Tuesday with Max Angus illustrations. It discusses art, design, locale, and moral elements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Christian Andersen
Eva le Gallienne
Nancy Elkholm Burkert
Collins
Mary Calvin
Janet McCaffery
Worlds Work Ltd
Joan Woodberry
Macmillan
Evan le Galliene
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Children's Book Council of Australia
Simon
Max Angus
Tasmania
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Glyn Ones
Michael Ames
Pelican
Erties
Miles
Cambridge
China
Japan
India
A. S. Neill
Gilbert Murray
Angus Ievenorate Tipp
Price
A T
Porlack
Suburbia
Alistair Maclean
Philip Calvert
Secret Service
Western Isles
Evening Standard
ST Francis OF Assisi
T. S. R. Boase
Arthur Boyd
Ben Suc
Jonathan Schell
Vietnam
Unk White
Canberra
Garema Place
Fyshwick
Society of Illustration
Mary Calhoun
Hesse
Karl
ZYG
Ag.t
Prices News Agency
Civic Centre
Malaya
Monaro Mall
MacLean
Secret Service Agen
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