Church militancy on social service work
Review contrasts Carter's God and Three Shillings with Anne Stevenson and colleagues High Living as a study of Victorian housing policy and Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence. It credits Tucker and allies for church driven social action, notes research orientation, and suggests urban planning implications for Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of St Laurence
I. R. Carter
Lansdowne Press
Anne Stevenson
Elaine Matrin
Judith O'Neil
Melbourne University Press
St Theresa
J. R. Carter
St Theresa's Orphanage
Newcastle
Gerard Tucker
Church of England
Tucker
Melbourne
Fitzroy
Brotherhood
Victoria
Social Service Bureau
Research and Social Action Department
Australia
Frank Coaldrake
Australian Board of Missions
Guy Cox
Father Tucker
Reinhold Niebuhr
World Council of Churches
Amsterdam
Carter
The
James Ludlow
F. D. Maurice
Charles Kingsley
Scott Holand
Bishop Core
Archbishop Temple
God
Elaine Martin
David Scott
Robert U'Ren
Extensive revision of Ourse lves and the Pacific
R. M. Crawford presents a revised Melbourne University Press edition of Our Selves and the Pacific 317 pages priced at $250. First written in 1940 before Pearl Harbour, it underwent major rewrites in 1945 1957 and 1961. The updated edition targets university study rather than school pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
R. MM
Crawford
Melbourne University Press
Pearl Harbour
Australia
Australia and the Pacific
Condemnation of man by Ginzburg INTO THE WHIRI WIND
Review of Evgenia Ginzburgs memoir condemns not communism but human cruelty under Stalin. It traces her 1937 1940 arrest, NKVD interrogations, prison and camp life at Yaroslavl Kolyma and Elgen, and her disillusionment with the Soviet system. The piece contrasts Soviet terror with later global cruelties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communism
Stalin
Evgenia Ginzburg
Times
Ginzburg
NKVD
Goodhye
Evgenia
Mooscow
Supreme Court
Yaroslavl
Modigliani A Biography by Pierre Sichel
A dense portrait of Amedeo Modigliani tracing his dual life as legend and artist. It notes his Paris years from 1906 to 1920, poverty and bohemian excess, and how his work defied simple categorization while dealers and Montmartre figures shaped his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Cocteau
Modigliani
Amedes Monvlighiani
Sainto Sans
Kahan
Leghorn
Haly
Paris
Stariers
Mordighiani
Brancuss
Medighani
Pierre Sichel
Montmartre
Montparmasse
Sichel
Matey
Sir Percy Larger Than Life Ambassador's Wife Review
A critical appraisal of Lady Spender's biography of Sir Percy Spender. It assesses her portrayal of his political career, the Reform era tensions with Menzies, and the social life of diplomatic Washington through a wife’s lens. The work blends personal anecdotes with broader international law and diplomacy themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spender
Menzies-Spender
Menzies
Fadden
Albury
Lady Macbeth
Labor
Percy
International Court of Justice
Sir Percy
Washington
Panera
United States
Australian Writers and Canberra Urban Redevelopment Volumes Featured
A Sydney Gazette feature review highlights five works including Australian Writers by J G Blake, from 1784 to 1966, with sections on biographers novels historians poets. Also reviewed are Assimilation to Group Survival by F P Medding and Sydney’s Lanes Cruaders by Isadore Brodsky, plus a Canberra urban redevelopment study and a drivers licences and vehicles guide by P L N Troya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J G. Blake
Theo Wok
Mr Blake
Rang Lian Capital
PL N. Troya
Canberra
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Price
Kolyma
Elgen
Indonnesia
Nigeria
Vietnam
Queen
Sir Percy Spender
By Robin Wallace-Crabbe
W. H. Allen
Odigliani
Jean Spender
Angus & Robertson
P. C. Spender
Chifley
Liberal
Nola Dekovere
Ver
Sydney Gazette
Inarey
Melbourne Jewry
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Nlase Crusaders
Isadore Brodsky
Caine Uning
Sydney
Ucrban
Austral National Univerity
Garema Place
Fyshwick
Phooe
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