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Patrick Morgan

B.A. Santamaria: Your most obedient servant: Selected Letters 1938–1996 edited by Patrick Morgan

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March 2007, no. 289
Brenda Niall reviews 'B.A. Santamaria: Your most obedient servant: Selected Letters 1938–1996' edited by Patrick Morgan

Among countless unused fragments of information from my convent schooldays, I remember the correct forms of address for churchmen of all ranks. For the pope, it was Your Holiness; for a cardinal, Your Eminence. Next came Your Grace and My Lord, for archbishops and bishops. Then the cumbersome Right Reverend and Dear Monsignor, followed by Dear Reverend Father, which sufficed for a priest.

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George Johnston by Garry Kinnane & A Foreign Wife by Gillian Bouras

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February–March 1987, no. 88
Patrick Morgan reviews 'George Johnston' by Garry Kinnane and 'A Foreign Wife' by Gillian Bouras

Like those of Tom and Viv, and Scott and Zelda, the life story of George Johnston and Charmian Clift is a high drama of love, sickness, loyalty, passion, talent and suffering, with a tragic intensity not often found in Australian life. The lives of artists are now often turned into works of art themselves. Garry Kinnane’s biography and the ABC radio documentary based on it make George and Charmian more fascinating than their books, with the possible exception of My Brother Jack.

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