Is She Really A New Woman
Don Ross critiques Sinclair on the 1920s suffrage era and the "new woman" debate. He argues male chauvinism, notes mothers and wives supported reform, and critiques descriptions of emancipation, envisioning future equality with fewer children and independent minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iquér
Sinclair
Mother Ann Lee
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
God
U.S
Yole
Ste
Don Ross
Our Court Jester Amnesiac by Levant Autobiography
Oscar Levant memoir recounts a life on stage and screen from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and Hollywood. The book details his prodigy years, neuroses, drug use, psychiatric struggles, and anecdotes of fame and scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Levant
Putnam
Broadway
Hollywood
Levant
Bernie
Monteux
Toscanini
Mit- Topodlés
George Gershwin
COOL HAND LUKE FILM NOVEL REVIEW BY PEARCE
Benn Pearce praises the grim gritty novel about Luke a rebellious war veteran sentenced to hard labor in a Florida road camp. The hero outperforms peers at hard labor and poker earning respect while rage at God fuels his defiance of camp rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luke
Benn Pearce
Scribners
Pearce
Florida
Road Gang
God
The Loss Of A Generation The Lost Generation Of 1914
Reginald Pound’s study reviews the World War I cohort viewed from a British angle. It praises courage and devotion while noting limits of judging “lost leaders” from posthumous letters and memoirs. Alan Pryce-Jones finds the book finely told though occasionally overwritten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reginald Pound
Coward McCann
Belsen
Hiroshima
Pound
Winston Churchill
Times
Rupert Brooke
Edward Horner
Grenfell Twins
Patrick Shaw- Steward
Harold Chapin
Oxford
Cambridge
Alan Pryce-Jones
The Inkling A North Carolina Horror Tale
Fred Chapell delivers a tightly written ten year study of five lives in a semi isolated North Carolina mountain paper mill town. Four are family members with a widow mother and Uncle Hake, until Laura Bowen arrives to upend them all. The ending recasts fear and intellect against time and fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Chapell
North Carolina
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pearl Harbor
Timmy
Jan
Hake
Laura Bowen
Chapell
Canton
Chappell
University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Tourists Between Niger and Nile by Toynbee
Historian Arnold J. Toynbee describes a nine week journey through upper and middle Africa in this Oxford University Press work. The tour extends from Morocco to Nigeria, the Sudan, Ethiopia, the United Arab Republic, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania.
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Niger
Nile
Arnold J. Toynbee
Oxford U. Press
Toynbee
Upper
Middle Africa
Hippes
Morocco
Nigeria
Sudan
Ethiopia
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Cyrenaica
Tripolitania
Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction List
A catalog of prominent books including Up the Down Staircase by Kaufman, The Ambassador by West, Hotel by Hailey, Don’t Stop the Carnival by Work, Markings by Hammarskjold, Is Paris Burning? by Collins and Lapierre, The Oxford History of the American People by Morison, The Making of the President 1964 by White, Queen Victoria by Longford, and The Source by Michener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michener
Kaufman
West Hotel
Hailey
Hammarskjold
Paris
Collins and Lapierre
Morison
White
Seat of Power by James D. Horan review
Maurice Dolbier reviews Seat of Power by James D. Horan. The critic notes the author, a NY Journal-American editor, blends fact and fiction about a NYC policy racket tied to crime and politics. Characters include Mafia boss Gennaro and inspector Murphy with a credible newspaper atmosphere.
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James D. Horan
New York City
Horan
New York Journal-American
Gennaro
de Lorenzo
D. A
Flaherty
Murphy
Savage
Ryder
Maurice Dolbier
James D. Horan, Author OF ‘the
Great Railroad Across Siberia to the Great Ocean
Harmon Tapper recounts the Trans Siberian Railway saga from early explorations to its 1916 completion on Russian soil. The book frames the line as a strategic feat shaping Siberia, Sino-Russian relations, and Soviet ascent, while noting the labor coercion and immense logistical challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Ocean
Siberia
Harmon Tapper
Little, Brown & Company
New York Herald Tribune
Stuart Loory
Moscow
Vladivostok
Urals
Pacific
Sea of Okhotsk
Russia
Manchuria
Amur
Harmon Tupper
Soviet Union
Test Firing Test Firing THE DAY OF TRINITY
Lansing Lamont recounts the Trinity test and the Manhattan Project from recruitment to the 1954 security case and 1963 vindication. The narrative covers Groves Oppenheimer and scientists, plus spies, and weighs the moral questions of nuclear warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing Lamont
Atheneum
Lamont
Manhattan
Los Alamos
N. M
Trinity
Leslie Groves
Robert Oppenheimer
Keneth Bainbridge
Donald Hornig
Leo M. Jercinovic
Klaus Fuchs
David Greenglass
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Oppenheimer
Summer Opera Debuts At Aycock Auditorium
The UNCG Opera Theatre presents the Piedmont’s first summer opera at Aycock Auditorium Friday and Saturday at 8 30 p m after a Piney Lake workshop led by Boris Goldovsky The production features Almaviva Larry Dorming Rosina Terie Cofield Bartolo Paul Fickfang Figaro Charles Lynam Basilio Lynn Stradley and Berta Janette Ogg with Richard Cox conducting the orchestra
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Uncg Opera Theatre
Piedmont
Aycock
Opera Workshop
Piney Lake
Boris Goldovsky
Almaviva
Larry Dorming
Rosina-Terie Cofield
Bartolo—Paul Fickfang
Figaro
Charles Lynam
Basilio Lynn Stradley
Berta
Janette Ogg
Richard Cox
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Gustave Dore
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Martin Gardner
Clarkson N. Potter Inc
Paolo
Pazelleo
Great Britain
Queen Victoria, Longford
United States
Trans - Siberien
Winston Symphony Orchestra
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