12 JULY 1969, Page 12

Trad and trendy

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

'Yet young people like this are not in the least typical of the present younger genera- tion'—A. E. Dyson on `The yahoo effect' (SPECTATOR, 5 July).

What is good and what is bad?

Who is trendy? who is trad?

Time was when it was very rare Youth wanted to be thought a square, But some have come to think of late It's more important to be straight.

Doctrinanz veram hanc ostende, Fashions may change from trad to trendy, But as the world goes slowly mad, It is we hope, youth's latest fad To find its trendy to be trad.