New Morgan Library Chief Seeks Open Door to Public
Charles A. Ryskamp, new director at the Pierpont Morgan Library, aims to expand public access and spotlight major exhibitions. He emphasizes the library’s dual role as a library and a museum, with strong holdings in illuminated manuscripts, Old Master drawings, and Rembrandt prints. A major future boost is a 1970 collection of musical autograph manuscripts.
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Miles A. Smith
New York
Pierpont Morgan
Charles A. Ryskamp
Morgan
Ryskamp
Yale
Princeton
Frederick B. Adams, Jr
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan
America
Durer
Brueghel
Rembrandt
The Collapse of the Third Republic Review
Robert Marks surveys William L. Shirer's The Collapse of the Third Republic, contrasting it with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He finds the former sprawling and less analytical yet argues the work details France’s 1940 collapse, naming Daladier Gamelin Petain Weygand Laval and the Vichy shift as pivotal.
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Robert Marks
France
William L. Shirer
Third Reich
Nazi Germany
Shirer
Third Republic
Edouard Daladier
Maurice Gamelin
Gamelin
Henri Petain
Maxine Weygand
Meuse
Petain
Wygand
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Germany
Italy
Look Back With Love Appalachia Review by Alberta Hannum
Alberta Pierson Hannum's Look Back With Love presents eight state Appalachia Virginia West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee the Carolinas Georgia and Alabama through mountain people's voices. The author warmly portrays frontier courage and dialect legends hunting moonshining and folklore in an easily readable lyrical tribute.
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Alberta Pierson Hannum
Vanguard
Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
When Is Novel Not A Novel Mr Sammler's Planet
Book review of Saul Bellow's novel Mr Sammler's Planet. Probes a midlife Jewish intellectual in Manhattan reflecting on postwar reality, values, and the limits of symbolic writing. Critiques include occasional purple prose yet praises its substantial ideas and moral questions.
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MR. Sammler
Planet
Saul Bellow
Viking
Bellow
London
Poland
Elya Bruner
Shula
America
Manhattan
Upper West Side
Looney Shula
Bruner
Angela
Wallace
Dr. Bruner
Govinda Lal
Lal
Herag
Sammiler
Underwater Parks Travel Tale by Criles
Helga and George Crile present a specialized account of underwater exploration across the Everglades Fort Jefferson Buck Island Virgin Islands and Anacapa Channel Islands in California. Mrs Crile narrates with diary tone weaving history biology ecology and local color amid diver experience and travel prose.
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Crile
Everglades
Fort Jefferson
Tortugas
Gulf of Mexico
Virgin Islands
Buck Island
Great Barrier Reef
St. Croix
St. John
Anacapa
Channel Islands
California
Dr Spock Outlines Radical Left Party Platform
Dr Spock argues imperialism and home oppression threaten the United States and urges building a radical left movement. He criticizes anti-Communism, calls for a party focused on people's needs, and links oppression to police state trends while exploring sex, education, and ethics in his broad critique.
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Spock
America
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Pierpont Morgan Library
Appalachia
Helga Sandburg
George Crile
McGraw-Hill
Eaton’s
Stationery Department
Traughan's Booksellers
N. Main ST
Greensboro
High Point
Ry Bert Beaman
Fountain Nkvd
Britt Way
Gudrun
Iencom
Hersegovina
Beaton
Will
Han
Oklahoma City
Zamenhof
Grant
Daniel
Ississippi
Puzzie
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