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KWAME NKRUMAH'S IDEOLOGY

... His actions and statements are frequently in the news and his intentions may not always be properly understood. His book, I SPEAK OF FREEDOM (Heinemann. 25s.), should help to clear away such misunderstandings. It has the sub-title A Statement of African ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS IN BALANCE

... tax produced the larger surplus for distribution to shareholders) but Mr. W. Longman gave an optimistic view of prospects, speaking towards the end of 1962. Ranking larger than Longmans in terms of assets but recently showing smaller profits is the Gla ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE FAR-OFF NINETEEN-TWENTIES: Michael Stewart's Nostalgic Story; Other New Novels, with Settings in Britain, ..

... Visits to London and even to New York seem incidental, for it is not only Sullivan, the boy who has acted since he could speak, but his friends in the little and great theatres, his family and the background they share that are the memor able things ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1706 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA

... and highly individual ways with love and crime, are moving, exasperating, funny or repellent and always vitally human. They speak with naturalness and behave often fantastically, but never unbelievably. They are characters in every sense of the word. I ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

HE BELIEVED IN HAPPINESS

... mysterious and complicated by the confession of the child's half-sister, Constance Kent. Criminologically speaking, a fascinating case to study humanly speaking, one of real horror. In settings, this week's novels range across the world, but several of them share ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1781 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

BOOK REVIEW: Conversations with a holy man

... cover many subjects, such as death and rebirth, the nature of man, suffering and life in the world. On all of them the Sage speaks with wisdom and considerable humanity. Some of the dialogues have a humour all their own: Devotee: I have a toothache. Is ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 560 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

HEROES OF AVIATION: The biography of one of the R.A.F.'s pathfinders and a portrait of Santos-Dumont; and this ..

... Portugal almost no English is spoken. What Our oldest allies? And then I tried to remember one person I knew just one who could speak Portu guese. But it is a delightful book. First in the list of novels this week, for more reasons than one, is Miss Margery ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1349 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Past times in India and Rhodesia; and Jamaica today and yesterday

... plans to leave for Perth in the autumn of this year Chief Kola Balogun, the Chairman of the Nigeria National Shipping Line, speaks at a luncheon in Newcastle-upon-Tyne after the launch from the Walker yard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson of the M/V ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 628 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

ATLANTIC ALLIANCE: Illustrated guide to Anglo-American history

... the general editorship of K. R. Greenfield are responsible for this wide-ranging review in which the facts are allowed to speak for themselves. For the reader there is the fascinating exercise ot considering what might have been. Ann Welch and Gabor Denes ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 693 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

STEPHEN SPENDER'S REVEALING AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A Modem Poet Writes a Trifle Embarrassingly; A New Biography of ..

... story of their five careers (the fifth brother is called Gummo and will have nothing to do with the stage or screen), and it speaks well for the author s stamina that he has been able to keep track of the brothers' doings, recount them without confusion ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1704 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE TRAGIC ASSAULT ON K2: A Wonderful Story of Endurance, Mountain Genius and Courage; Miss Roth Tells her ..

... the ninety-year span of her life, which extended from 1818 to 1908, and which, because of her connections, allowed her to speak with equal familiarity of Mendelssohn and Wagner, Chopin and Liszt. Miss Averil Mackenzie- Grieve has written her story with ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1709 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

FICTION AND REALITY: A Variety of New Novels, with Settings in Britain and Elsewhere, in the Past and the ..

... character without his own ring of authenticity, and I can recommend the book to you as a slightly belated New Year's present. Speaking as a strong anti-fantasy partisan, 1 can still say that I greatly enjoyed Mr. Paul Capon's little prank, INTO THE TENTH ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1595 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review