Love and the French a history of romance and society
Nina Epton surveys how France shaped love from medieval troubadours to contemporary attitudes, tracing chivalry to salons and prostitution, and examining war, class, and modern insecurity. The book argues love endures amid upheaval and economic change, offering thoughtful, objective analysis.
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France
England
Charles d'Orleans
Agincourt
Nina Epton
Miss Epton
Valois
Diane de Poitiers
Henri II
Paris
Cupid
Epton
Generation Without Trial. Kay Boyle's Postwar Portrait
Book review of Kay Boyle's Generation Without Trial (Knopf 301 pages). Narrates a 1948 German setting through Jaeger, a 27 year old interpreter and POW returnee, exploring Occupier and Occupied dynamics, moral ambiguity, and identity in postwar Hesse with vignettes and dreamlike observation. John K. Hutches.
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Kay Boyle
Knopf
Germany
New Yorker
Midwest
Way of
Paris
Els
Western
Jaeger
America
Hesse
Writers Guild In Settlement In Hollywood
The Writers Guild of America reached a settlement with 37 independent film companies over revenue from post 1948 films released to television. Agreements were also made with Aliston Productions Baroda and Carlyle Productions Bryna Productions. The strike against independents is viewed as virtually won while a longer strike against major studios continues.
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Hollywood
Writers Guild of America
Guild
Gary Cooper
Aliston Productions
Otto Preminger
Baroda
Carlyle Productions
Kirk Douglas
Bryna Productions
Independents
Ken Englund
Screen
Lincoln Birthday Books Highlight Three New Works
The 1960 Lincoln crop features A Lincoln, Prairie Lawyer by John J. Duff, Lincoln and the Civil War by Courtland Canby, and Abraham Lincoln Goes to New York by Andrew A. Freeman. Duff combines legal roots with frontier circuit life, Canby offers a themed anthology, and Freeman centers on the Cooper Union speech centennial.
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Lincoln
A. Lincoln
Prairie Lawyer
John J. Duff
Rinehart
Duff
Courtland Canby Braziller
Canby
Abraham Lincoln
New York
Cooper Union
East
Bob Price
Soviet Magazine Appears On Stands In Boise Idaho
A Soviet magazine USSR appeared on Boise news stands sparking initial protests from one hotel manager who later relented and allowed the issue. The incident coincides with a Soviet officials visit to southwestern Idaho and the USSR Amerika exchange program.
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Boise, Idaho
Basil Micullis
Ussr
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Amerika
Boise
Idaho
America
Greensboro
Pilgrimages Reported In Good Books By W G ROGERS
Three writers publish travel books from modern pilgrimages. Gavin Maxwell tours Sicily for Salvatore Giuliano and broader humanity. Rupert Croft-Cooke traces Don Quixote routes in Spain. Elizabeth Bowen last travels Rome for A Time in Rome.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Sicily
Spain
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Rome
Emperior
Saint
Pope
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Carlyle
England
France
Italy
Greece
America
Gavin Maxwell
Salvatore Giuliano
Montelepre
Dutton
Rupert Croft-Cooke
Tangier
Cadiz
Barcelona
Knopf
Torrenueva
Croft-Cooke
Novia
Emerson
African Journey NO ROOM IN THE ARK review
Alan Moorehead’s African Journey is praised as a vivid travelogue through Africa’s wildlife and people. The critic admires Moorehead’s factual eye, warm affection for hippos elephants and tribes, and engaging portraits from Johannesburg to Khartoum while noting some cautious limits of a non zoologist reviewer.
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Maxwell
Blue Sea
Palermo
Gulf of Castellammare
Trapani
Alan Moorehead
Churchill and
Montgomery
Gallipoli
Africa
Massai
Nairobi
Kruger Parks
Moorehead
Mr. Moorehead
Johannesburg
South Africa
Kruger Park
Khartoum
Churchill
Kitchener
21St Lancers
Ge. Gordon
John K. Hutchens
Current Best Sellers List Highlights Top Reads
The best sellers include fiction titles Advising Consent Drury Hawaii Michener Dear and Glorious Physician Caldwell The War Lover Hersey Exodus Uris and nonfiction picks Act One Hart Folk Medicine Jarvis The Longest Day Ryan The Armada Mattingly This Is My God Wouk.
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Drury
Hawaii
Michener
Caldwell
Hersey
Uris
Hart
Jarvis
Ryan
Mattingly
God
Wouk
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Writers Guild
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Elizabeth Bowen
Ireland
Sherry
Argamasilla de Alba
la Mancha
Miss Bowen
Colosseum
Livia
Augustus
Josephine
Malmaison
Vestals
St. Paul
Cellini
Garibaldi
Forum
Europe
the Ark
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Harper
Kirkwood
Lustre-Sheen Service
Eonin
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Lenoir Chambers
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