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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1964Vol. 35, No. 9

New Quadrant

p. 91 · Read in the full issue

QUADRANT, one of the small group of Australian literary journals, is having a new lease on life. Its previous view, shared by its contemporaries, that to be intel lectual you also have to be dull has been put aside in recent issues, and a new, larger format has also helped to make the magazine (published every second month) more readable.

A recent excellent article on the Australian businessmen is now follow ed in the June-July issue by another memorable piece. Hugh Atkinson on the cult of the “Surfies” on Sydney beaches. There are other pieces on the ballet, metaphysics, music, Shake speare and journalism. Quadrant's address is Box 4714, G.P.0., Sydney,