by NRB | 23 Feb 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
All four of my grandparents spoke with regional British accents – Manx, north-country English and Scots. My parents spoke with mid-range Australian accents, neither – to use examples from the period – broad like the Labor leader Arthur Calwell, nor posh like the prime...
by NRB | 29 Nov 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Many memoirs, perhaps especially by writers, acknowledge the roles played by teachers in the shaping of people’s careers. Sometimes the teacher occurs as far back as primary school but more commonly later, and occasionally the mentorship morphs into a lifelong...
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