The Invasion of Laodicea John Rosselli A Question of Animals Murray Kempton I'm All Right, Jack Bernard Levin Spectator's Notebook Starbuck

but it certainly does not guarantee their popularity; least of all in such a confused time of peace and plenty, of fear of war and of well - heeled relative poverty, , .vith the...

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visit, some say to Stockton, some say to Canossa. Either way, he got there by crossing the Rubicon. Mr. Grimond fol- lowed hard upon him, though his supporters were claiming...

M mustutts, presumably calculatin g that whoops of enthusiasm would weaken our bargaining power in Brussels, have maintained a furtive silence, only now breaking, for several...

Fog OR the moment it seems that Syria is to be even a sporadic civil war. The con- fused situation which has prevailed there during the past few days consisted in its essentials...

do when a large portion of the electorate freely chooses a totalitarian party?' Thus some- one on about Argentina at the weekend. This is the kind of question guaranteed always...

from this paper's circulation manager, that Oxford de- cided early on to stay well above what it plainly regarded as a vulgar Cambridge squabble. While 1,144 extra copies of the...

M HE statement by the Greek Cypriot Minister I of Labour, Mr. Papadopoulos, that the Zurich agreements could not be regarded as a permanent obstacle to the full realisation of...

Is this Leavis-Snow business going on for ever? My American correspondence suggests that the row is having even bigger repercussions in the United States than here. No doubt...

I'm delighted to see the second issue of The Dubliner, a literary review intended, among other things, to plug the gap left by the death of the Dublin Magazine a few years ago....

rr HE fight for the uncommitted centre, for the I swelling ranks of smart young men and women who have automatic allegiance to neither of the great embodiments of the coun-...

Talking of establishments reminds me that I've made a note not to miss Lenny Bruce at our own Establishment. He is the latest in Lon- don of the American entertainers who...

By RICHARD BAILEY T HE idea that governments should direct eco- nomic activities within their territories has now been accepted by everyone but the Dukhobors. But among the Six...

From MURRAY KENIPTON NEW YORK MER1CAN television, already history's most 1- 3 k developed instrument for the distribution and exportation of contrived images of mayhem, List...

By BERNARD LEVIN HAT'S behind all this, Mr. Parker?' asked the judge early on the first day of the action. Mr. Parker could not, unfortunately, tell him, as in order to avoid...

The Lottery of the Law By R. A . CLINE A FEW Friday afternoons ago a sparse but • enthusiastic group of MPs gathered to give their support to a Private Member's Bill, one more...

for British publishing firms is now common know- ledge. Their reasons are two. First, they do not think our 'cottage industry' is making the best of the opportunity even on its...

By JOHN ROSSELLI • A 'COTTAGE industry,' an 'occupation for ,Mgentlemen'—publishers are beginning to find stuck on their name-plates a collection of tags like these, each of...

These arrangements were not all of a kind. The Collins and Heinemann groups were loose arrangements that gave the small firms taken over some, financial security and some common...

Does it matter, though? Would the British reading public be the poorer by a single good book if half the British publishing trade were taken over by Americans? Some publishers...

The Believers are scattered; there are some within the walls of Laodicea, but it is difficult to think of Believing firms other than one or two small ones like John Calder,...

Richard Rees, Rev. Dr. Charles E. Raven, Robert Kahak, Neville Denny Libel in Israel I. D. Unna The. White Settlers D. G. Todd, Harvey R. Cole The New Men Lady June °taloa ,...

Israelis nor to gag their press. It was designed with- out doing either of these things, to remedy what is generally admitted, by those acquainted with the present state of the...

Leavis's lecture on C. P. Snow in its entirety. The points raised by Dr. Leavis deserve the consideration of everyone who respects the com- plexity of truth and is honestly...

columns to your wise editorial of March 30 on 'The Two Cultures.' You comment on the omis- sion of 'philosophy' from the Rede Lecture and explain that you are using the word to...

us from the rather squalid slanging match between the admirers of Sir Charles Snow to the 'Two Cultures' which was the theme of his and Dr. Leavis's lectures. The objection...

Reader's Digest sense, where (at a slightly more sophisticated level perhaps) a 'Scientific Culture' and a 'Literary Culture' jostle with a 'Teenage Cul- ture,, a Deb Culture, a...

is a monotonous nostalgia for something that never existed anyway. To take just one of the many flaws in his analogy, the post-war suburban colonists never managed to secure...

SIR,—What an extraordinary assumption by Mr. Farleigh, one of your correspondents last week. Who ever thought that the Spectator was anything but a Conservative journal—though...

Street via grammar school to Oxford. Therefore I am, by his definition, one of Charles Curran's 'white settlers of post-war Britain.' In his article he describes a class which...

SIR,—Mr. Alan Brien is wrong in assuming, in his review of The Courage of his Convictions, that Robert Allerton will now cash in on his notoriety. He has already been asked for...

SIR,—A journalist must accept the sub-editor's shears as a normal penalty for writing too much, but occasionally he must point out that, un- intentionally, they have modified...

SIR,-1 have read your review on February 23 of Leonard Mosley's book The Last Days of the British Raj, and have now read the book. As your reviewer, Mr. Philip Mason, criticises...

of CND believes that unilateralism is a policy without risks. Our belief is that it is, in the long run, less risky to be without the bomb—particularly since, tt paraphrase...

With a Bare Bedstead By BAMBER ASCOIGNE The Knack. (Royal Court.)—The Cauca- sian Chalk Circle. (Aldwych.) The Knack provides a fascinating comparison with Play with a Tiger,...

the late Lord Birkett, with the agree- ment of his family. Besides the law, Lord Birkett had many other interests, including literature, Anglo-American re- lations, cricket and...

Dust: He claims I do an injustice to 'the devoted French civilians and soldiers who have served in Algeria and . . the few local European liberals who have really tried to...

East is West By ISABEL QUIGLY The Road to Hong Kong. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — It's Trad, Dad. (London Pavilion.)—A Majority of One. (Warner.) THIS was charm week, when...

The Workshop By HUGH GRAHAM It is perhaps not necessary to relate Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger to the school where they worked and taught for no more than a dozen years of...

Eyes and Ears By DAVID CAIRNS AFTER the claims made for the latest triumphs of opera in the recording studio — perform- ances which at last allow you to hear everything, and...

Covent Garden Porters By CLIVE BARNES POOR devils. Duped by fairies, hounded by villains, con- demned to lump nine stone of ballerina round the stage for the most part of...

Servant to the Ages By J. M COHEN T HERE can be no question now of Pasternak's stature . The early poems proclaimed it, but in translation their eccentricities obtruded. The...

The Making of the President, 1960. By Theodore THE present President of the United States is a good, courageous, dynamic, far-sighted and im- mensely able man. And the one...

Independent Eastern Europe. By C. A. Macart- nert. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s.) Moscow Journal. By Harrison E. Salisbury. (University of Chicago Press, 56s.) MR. MACARTNEY...

REVISIONISM is the permanent heresy of ortho- dox Marxism. The revisionist planet perpetually orbits the Marxist sun, changing its course and its contours with the unpredictable...

The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1804-1808. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, two vols., 90s.) CONFIRMED Coleridgeans will welcome, as they deserve...

Llareggub Revisited. By David Holbrook. (Bowes and Bowes, 21s.) English in Education. Edited by Brian Jackson THOUGH Dr. Leavis may complain of neglect and misunderstanding,...

Poems in English. By Samuel Beckett. (John Calder, 13s. 6d.) JOHN HOLLOWAY's The Land Jailers is an allegory of two major themes of this century: betrayal (Under Western Eyes,...

The Barbary Light. By P. H. Newby (Faber, 18s.) WILLIAM STYRON'S American reputation may have slightly baffled English readers acquainted only with the two novels by him which...

By CUSTOS T III fact that dividends and interest pay- ments on Stock Exchange securities went up last year by 5.9 per cent. against the 8 per cent. rise in wages and salaries...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tins is the season of. the year when the Treasury takes the centre of the national stage and performs its an- nual turns—the balancing of payments, the...

T HE BRITISH WAGON CO. LTD. suf- fered a 25 per cent. decline in profits for 1961, due to the reduced sale of motor vehicles arid the 7 per cent. (later 6 per cent.) Bank rate....

Machina ex Deo By K ATHAR1NE WHITEHORN I do not know which machines bother other people most, but my trouble consists of a vacuum cleaner that cannot digest, an egg-whisk that...

Footloose and Taxi Free By LESLIE ADRIAN Tub less you pay for your holiday, generally speaking, the less • you get, and 'bargain' holi- days, much more often than not, should...

week on the Torbay Express) have put up the price of their anonymous, blended, non-vintage regional wines-Medoc, Graves, Macon• and vin rosé- from an impudent I 5s. to an...