My Dear Cousin shows romance of Foster and Hollingsworth
Peggy Hoffman of Raleigh draws on diaries and letters to tell the tale of Sir Augustus John Foster, British diplomat, and Lydia Hollingsworth, a Baltimore belle. The wartime romance ends with Foster's death by his own hand and Lydia remaining unmarried.
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Peggy Hoffman
Raleigh
Sir Augustus John Foster
Lydia Hollingsworth
Foster
Britain
United States
Hollingsworth
Baltimore
Lydia
Sanctuary V explores asylum clash in South America
Budd Schulberg’s new novel centers on Justo Moreno Suarez a provisional president who seeks sanctuary in a neutral embassy with his wife and daughter. The plot follows the erosion of free speech amidst denials of promised elections and the moral decline within a crowded refuge.
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Budd Schulberg
United States
South America
Justo Moreno Suarez
Angel Bello
Bello
Suarez
The Great American Jackpot review by Herbert Gold
A critical look at Herbert Gold's satire on the post sixties youth in the San Francisco scene. The story follows Al Dooley a sociology grad student with an identity crisis amid hippies antiwar demonstrators and civil rights agitators. Milly and Dr Jarod Howe populate the social circle as the plot drifts toward unresolved ambitions.
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Gold
San Francisco
al Dooley
Milly
Landscapes In Twelve Episodes By J A Baker
In this nature writing, J A Baker guides readers through twelve landscapes across Southern England from April to September. The prose is lyrical, detailing birds, woods, seas, moors, and storms with careful observation and rich descriptive imagery.
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J.A. Baker
Harper
England
Baker
Hollywood Bowl season set for July July 5 run with Stern concert
The Hollywood Bowl season runs July 7 through September 5 featuring Isaac Stern in a birthday concert on July 21. Other violinists include Itzhak Perlman Ruggiero Ricci and Pinchas Zukerman. Opening night piano soloist Andre Watts and other pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy John Brown Misha Dichter Nelson Freire Gary Graffman Lorin Hollander Eugene Istomin are announced.
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Los Angeles
Isaac Stern
Violinists
Itzhak Perlman
Ruggiero Ricci and
Pinchas Zukerman
Andre Watts
Vladimir Ashkenazy
John Brown
Misha Dichter
Nelson Freire
Gary Graffman
Lorin Hollander
Eugene Istomin
Personal insight replaces form in modern novel study
Chapel Hill UNC course led by Mrs. Joan Lipsitz shifts focus from formal analysis to human relations and societal issues in contemporary American fiction. It examines anti hero figures and the clash between individuality and mass society, studying writers like Styron, Malamud, Bellow, Baldwin and Barth.
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Chapel Hill
Joan Lipsitz
Lewis Lipsitz
Unc-Chapel Hill
Lipsitz
Mrs. Lipsitz
Adventures of Aunt Augusta travel tale by Greene
Graham Greene’s The Adventures Of Aunt Augusta follows Henry Pulling as his 75 year old Aunt Augusta whisks him from his quiet life to travel exploits in Istanbul and Paraguay. The pair meet a cast including Wordsworth an African companion a free spirited American girl and a man named Visconti with Nazi and Interpol ties. The journey exposes Henry to color and folly transforming him from a dull retiree into a comic improvisor as the tale winds through eccentric escapades and a smuggling hub finale.
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Henry Pulling
Henry
Augusta
Istanbul
Wordsworth
C.sa
Visconti
Interpol
Paraguay
Technology In Detail History Of Technology And Invention
A review praising the French translation edited by Maurice Daumas of the History of Technology. It notes Daumas’s single handed editing, Kranzberg’s bibliographies, and the work’s depth surpassing Singer. Translation accuracy is affirmed, with Gallic circumlocutions noted. It compares price favorably to the Singer edition.
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Maurice Daumas
Crown Publishers
Charles Singer
Paul Gille
Denis Papin
H. W. Dickinson
Dauma
Singer
Daumas
National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
Paris
Melvin Kranzberg
Case Western Reserve University
Eileen Hennessy
Montoya Pioneered Flamenco Concert Guitars Worldwide
Carlos Montoya, the famed flamenco guitarist born in Madrid in 1930, bridged traditional flamenco and concert stages. He started flamenco concerts, toured globally, and emphasized improvisation over written music while noting the distinct flamenco guitar sound and rhythms. He remains a prolific performer with hundreds of annual dates and contributed to a suite for guitar and orchestra in 1966.
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New York
Carlos Montoya
Montoya
Madrid
la Argentinita
United States
Penn State
Hamburg
St. Louis Symphony
United Artists
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Graham Greene
Viking
Greene
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Claire
Antoinette
Eapon
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Andy
Saul
Coolidge
Jis
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Phillip Ro
Peter
Edwin Corley
Josephine
Jacqueline Susann
Love Machine
the Tough Guys
Mickey Spillane
U.S
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Thomasville
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