Plays sad image in Hopkins television quartet
Hope Hewitt reviews John Hopkins four television plays collected in Penguin Modern Playwrights. The linked unit portrays a lower middle class English family across mother, father, Terry, and Alan, with themes of failed relationships, suicide, and evolving viewpoints. The plays employ TV techniques to deepen psychology and unify the sequence into an ironic, cohesive whole.
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John Hopkins
Penguin Modern Playwrights
Price
Wesker
Terry
Alan
England
Hopkins
Whipsnade
Church
Travesty of Trust edited by Segal and First
A quiet yet bitter study of South West Africa reveals how apartheid’s racial imperialism spreads and harms Africans. Scholarly papers from the March 1966 International Conference on South West Africa show legal openings for change but lack practical execution, with voices from academics and African nationalists casting a cautious, even verdict.
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South West Africa
Ronald Segal
Ruth First
Andre Dewisch
Nuremberg
Inter
White laager in the racist South and the South West
The piece traces the South West Africa mandate from German colonial conquest to World War I, its League Mandate status, and South Africa’s assimilationist policies. It notes white monopoly in salaries and education, native policy restricting labor, and postwar decolonisation pressures culminating in an International Court ruling on mandate withdrawal.
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National Court of Justice
South-West Africa
South Africa
International Court
South West Africa
Mrs Satan and the Wall Street Sisters of Free Love
Biographical sketch of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, 19th century figures known for radical philanthropy, feminism, and free love advocacy. The review notes their rise in New York as stockbrokers, political ambitions, and later shifts toward mysticism and religious themes while detailing their imprisonment for obscenity and their eventual respectable English status.
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New York City
Henry Ward Beecher
Victoria
Tennie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Wall Street
America
Vickie
Mrs Satan
Thomas Nast
Mel Johnston
Martin’s Bank
Thethen
London
Satan
New York
Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly
Moscow Diary review highlights African students in Moscow
A critical appraisal of Moscow Diary by William Aner Taylor and Robert Hole notes the Ghanaian author’s 1960 Friendship University experience. It surveys racial prejudice among Africans, Russians, and others, detailing student life, education limits, and cross cultural contact amid Cold War tensions.
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Moscow
William Aner
Taylor
Robert Hole
Alabama
Friendship University
Russia
London
Anti-Taylor
Asia
Latin America
Britain
America
Clamant
Thomases
Students’ Union
Nkruumah
Africa
Nkrumah
Mali
Friendship
Lumumba University
BBC
Voice of America
Fram Thin
Black Sea
Tve
Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
Review of Australiana Facsimiles No 145 edition of Phillip's voyage and the Botany Bay settlement. Notes publisher John Stockdale and the work's dubious authorship, amid praise for its value, plates, and historical context for collectors.
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Phillip
Botany Bay
Port Jackson
Norfolk Island
Liewts
Shortland
Watts
Ball
Marshall
Embelshed
Huiter
Liew
Dawes Bradley
Capt Marshall
London
John Stockdale
Piccadilly
Libraries Board of South Australia
Adelaide
John Stackable
Hawkeyworth
Cook
John Latham
Canberra Books and Shipping Histories Featured
New editions and scarce titles arrive in Canberra including Trees to Canberra by J Pryor with botany notes and photos, Australian Shipping History selections, and a poetry anthology Native Grounds. Also releasing Austallians In Vietnam by Tan Mackay and The Fonte Saga episode stocks for ABC watchers. University students urged to visit Cheshires for economics law history and politics texts at Garema Place and Newcastle Street stores.
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Canberra
J. Pryor
The
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