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Noises Off

A Breathing Space. By Thomas Blackburn. (Putnam, 12s. 6d.) THOMAS BLACKBURN'S earlier work was SO over- laid with Yeats's manner and imagery that it was often difficult to see......

Books

The Cleansing Process By LEONARD SCHAPIRO TT is, I suppose, inevitable that our main 'interest in Soviet literature should usually tend to be political—the Soviet party......

Gleichschaltung

Big Business in the Third Reich. By Arthur Schweitzer. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 55s.), IN so far as the writing of modern German history is concerned, 1964 seems to be one of The......