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ANOTHER VOICE

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ANOTHER VOICE Has the art world developed a fresh perspective, had a new idea? AUBERON WAUGH Riffling through my post last week I came across an invitation to something...

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[Sir: During his amusing diatribe against...]

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Sir: During his amusing diatribe against every Fleet Street editor, apart from his own, Paul Johnson described the News of the World as 'dead'. This struck me as pretty rich...

[Sir: So Paul Johnson considers that the...]

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Sir: So Paul Johnson considers that the Observer has been a disaster under the ownership of the Guardian group. Can this be the same Paul Johnson who told your readers on 23...

Evolving Darwinism

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Evolving Darwinism Sir: In my essay on Darwinism in your 31 December issue ('The fatal flaw of a great theory'), I wrote that if Darwin were alive today he would protest...

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Sir: Please, please don't listen to Peter Pre- ston's plea (Letters, 28 January) that you I phase out Paul Johnson, or perhaps, as has happened to the errant Guardian editor...

Peter and Paul

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L E T T E R S Peter and Paul Sir: Mr Paul Johnson is wrong again, twice (Another thing, 21 January). I did not insist upon the fax by which the Guardian obtained the evidence...

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Staunchly loyal

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Staunchly loyal - Sir: Your profile of Woodrow Wyatt was not something I would have expected from The Spectator. It was cowardly in its anonymity and unjust in its attacks. To...

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Sir: Even vour ungenerous and anonymous profile of Woodrow Wyatt ('A man for all reasons', 21 January) describes his role in exposing and defeating communist ballotrigging in...

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Great heights

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Great heights Sir: How I wish that I could have seen Lady Thatcher 'ascend the dining-room of the Carlton' (Centre point, 21 January). Did she swing from a chandelier when she...

Past it

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Past it Sir: Flattering as it is to be considered a 'bright young thing', I was surprised that you gave so much space to such fogeyish nonsense as 'Takeover of the teenage...

Scandalised of New York

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Scandalised of New York Sir: Oleg Gordievsky's KGB training in disinformation was not in vain ('The Guardian's KGB tactics', 14 January). He now presents himself as a...

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CENTRE POINT

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CEN TRE POINT 0~~~~~~~~ Being on the right side does not mean never having to say sorry SIMON JENKINS A the US 5th Army inched its way up Italy in 1944 its command constantly...

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Hamlet, though not meant to be

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Hamlet, though not meant to be Anita Brookner THE PRINCE OF WEST END I AVENUE by Alan Isler Cape, £9.99, pp.246 S ince new talent invariably comes garlanded with...

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Volleyed and thundered

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Volleyed and thundered A. N. Wilson THE WESTERN CANON: THE BOOKS AND SCHOOL OF THE AGES by Harold Bloom Harcourt Brace & Co, f20, pp. 578 Y ou might have thought, if you have...

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Daydreams

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Daydreams Into destruction I would bring an order whole and classical. Hope for the good? Out of the question. Let me die invisible. Sors bona nihil aliud. To whomever digs my...

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Mysteries of the orgasm

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Mysteries of the orgasm Alasdair Palmer THE FACTS OF LIFE: THE CREATION OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE IN BRITAIN, 1650-1950 by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall Yale, £19.95, pp. 416 A cademic...

Poor Jack

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Poor Jack Jack suddenly became a widower; he was watching Golden Girls at the time, his wife was pinning a rip in the bedspread. The women in the block expected her to grow old...

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Opera

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Opera Troilus and Cressida (Opera North) Blood curdling Rupert Christiansen HFere I go again, banging on about how wonderful Opera North is, and how lazy Londoners could...

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Theatre

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Theatre The Merry Wives of Windsor (Olivier) As You Like It (Albery) The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Shaftesbury) Fringe benefits Sheridan Morley W\tritten famously at...

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Television

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Television A wobbly beginning Nigella Lawson Oh dear. First Dangerfield, then The Buccaneers. What can I say? Actually, the most disappointing thing about Dangerfield (BBC1,...

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Low life

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Low life Give me a title Jeffrey Bernard I have got nothing to write about and never have had although yesterday my niece, Katie, suggested that I ditch biographers and write...

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Office life

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Office life Dangerous moves Holly Budd ANthur, head of division, with 'Streaky' Bacon and me as representative heads of department, were to appear before the Board to urge...

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FOOD

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NeeD tir irst aid for the party i1S~gU~i41b,.. as -I,,I .Al I HAVE just been sent a book by Sally Bruce-Gardyne, widow of Jock Bruce-Gardyne, a very brave and splendid man and...

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SPECTATOR SPORT

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SPECTATOR SPORT Drop-kicks and fisticuffs Frank Keating THE BACK pages had a field day when Monsieur Cantona's Thai-box drop-kick chose a jeering spectator's chest during...