Svetlana
Sir: So Svetlana Josipovna is a Martian, according to Mr Murray Kempton (5 May). Golly, by Jeeves, all these jolly old foreigners we have to mix with nowadays. I blame all this loose talk about that awfully common market, don't you?
Frankly, I've seen these Martian qualities before in Russian women especially. You get the same poise and dignity and total lack of self-conscious- ness in, say, Krushcheva, Furtseva, Tereshkova, Ulanova, Plissetskaya and many more whom I have interviewed. Why haven't we got it too? Imagine, for example, the coy Mary Wilson seeking asylum somewhere, on telly, in any language, even her own.
Is it all due to their educational system? Or is it that their women have sex without being sexy? I've always wondered. Now I know, from Mr Kempton. They get it from Mars.
Nu? There are worse places, I suppose. I only wish they'd teach all this charm and stuff in, say, Croydon or Purley, for a start.
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