1 JUNE 1962, Page 15

CELESTIAL INFANCIES

SIR,-1 would like to state that in my last year as a pup.l at Darlington I went regularly to Holy Com- munion, yet was tolerated and even respected by the other pupils. (I may add that I was also respected for my love of such figures as Van Eyck, Thomas Mann and Schoenberg.) I little deserved this regard, however, because I frequently abused my contem- poraries for what I considered to be their philistin- ism; and was, by the way, often reprimanded by members of the staff for doing so. Does that contra- dict anything Mr. Levin has said?