emphasising decorum in his moral system. The first of them was favourably reviewed by Brikt Jensen in Verdens Gang, who called it "a declaration of love for Oslo". Reviewing for the same newspaper, Ragnhild Lorentzen gave the second novel a laudatory review, praising Hambro for having taken an important task upon his shoulders, whilst simultaneously criticising him for blurring the line between adolescence and adulthood. Dahl maintained that these novels constituted an unpretentious, yet clear-eyed criticism of conformity in that milieu, whilst Andersen considered them stories about double standards and liberation from one's own father. Rottem maintained that the novel was autobiographical, and that Hambro tried to polemise against the extramarital relationship that his father had enjoyed with actress Gyda Christensen. 1966 proved to be a fruitful year for Hambro: he first contributed to the lightly pornographic literary collection Norske sengehester ("Norwegian Bedposts"), and subsequently, in September, delivered a vehement critique of the Norwegian education system in the pamphlet Er gymnasiaster mennesker? ("Are Graduates People?"). The last novel of his trilogy about Nico Dietmeyer was released in November of the same year; Lorentzen deemed the first part of the book to be somewhat verbose, inconclusive and unoriginal, yet also well-written. In 1967 Hambro released Bjørnen sover ("The Bear Is Sleeping"), a marriage novel that disappointed the critics, before publishing his semantic and psycholinguistic study Ting, tanke, tale ("Thing, Thought, Speech") in 1969. The journalist Iver Tore Svenning recognized that work as one of the very few successful attempts at a popular scientific treatment of structural linguistics, a view supported by Dahl. Hambro's last novels were Nødhavn ("Harbour of Refuge") and Lekkasje ("Leakage"), released in 1971 and 1974. The former book is about a love affair between an erstwhile cultural radical and a young woman with aggressive political opinions. The affair makes, according to Dahl, the cultural radical think about his nonconformist past, yet he abandons it, and seeks safety in the bourgeoisie class. Hambro continued to write, albeit more in the non-fiction genre: in the 1970s he penned numerous articles on political and literary topics for Norwegian newspapers and periodicals. He particularly contributed to the periodicals Vinduet and Samtiden. In 1972 he resumed his endeavour to popularise linguistics: together with Erik Rudeng and Knut Svortdal he compiled Språket i funksjon ("Language in Operation"), a primer on language comprehension and essay writing. Rudeng later recalled that it cited philosophers and linguists