12 JANUARY 1968, Page 23

Dr Leach's new Jerusalem

Sir: You must be as bored with these etymologi- cal niceties as I am. I meant what I said, not what Dr Goodhart (Letters, 29 December) thinks I meant to say. In a social world dominated by the values of 'keeping up with the Joneses' the privacy of family life is both showy and miserable.