9 JULY 1983

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Hidden meanings

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Hidden meanings E' xtra-Parlianilentary acltion' is a useFul phrase for Labour. When people complain that in advocating it, politicians and trade union leaders are questioning...

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Political commentary

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Political commentary The wromance of Mr Pym Charles Moore According to Sellars and Yeatman, the Cavaliers were 'wrong but wromantic'. If you insist on being wrong, it is...

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Notebook

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Notebook People often ask ine what happened to the doctor about whom I once wrote in this Notebook - the one who cut off his wife's toes. Now that cancer has claimed him I can...

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Another voice

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IhAnother voice Suitable case for treatment Auberon Waugh Perhaps we should be more alarmed than we seem to be by the fact that within an hour of Parliament's reassembling...

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Apartheid of the tribes

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Apartheid of the tribes Richard West In one of the most expensive bars of Johannesburg, I found the black barman talking about his family life with a well-dressed black...

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Ranting at the Palace

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Ranting at the Palace Roy Kerridge Is there a personality in our times whose influence in England can compare with that of Karl Marx? Yes, I believe there is. His name - Elvis...

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Dead or alive?

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Dead or alive? Colin Welch When the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia died, full of years and honour, his advisers thought it injudicious prematurely to announce the fact. IFron...

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Variations on a theme

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Variations on a theme Sir: Reviewing my book, Under the AMSk, in the Sulnday Telegra-ph on 27 February, Richard West began: 'The left-wing author, Neville Dreadberg, who...

Black Fred

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Black Fred Sir: There is in fact a sculpture of Frederick Courtenay Selous (Letters, 2 July), in safari: gear with rifle, in the Natural History Museum. Camdenites need not...

Beyond the bounds

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Beyond the bounds Sir: Nigella Lawson has overstepped the bounds of constructive criticism in your colulims when reviewing (11 tIune) the score of real-life crime tales...

Merchantmen

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Merchantmen Sir: The prejudice against advertising which Paul Johnson seeks to invert (2 July) is the older prejudice against trade. We may turn to Trollope, the first chapter...

[Sir: Those who complain that the Belgrano...]

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Sir: Those who complain that the Belgrano was attacked and sunk whilst clearly on a course for an Argentinian port seem to forget that in March 1941 the Bismarck was on course...

The shaddock

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The shaddock Sir: The shaddock (Elizabeth Berridge, 2 July) is a coarse grapefruit brought from the East to the West Indies by Captain Shaddock nearly 300 years ago. Its thick...

Sic et non

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Sic et non Sir: I quote Alexander Chancellor (Notebook, 25 June): 'The Sunday People organised an opinion poll which showed that 90 per cent of the population would like...

Etonian problems

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Letters Etonian problems Sir: In your Notebook of 25 June you refer to the absence of Etonians from the Cabinet. No doubt the school will be looking at ways to counter this...

[Sir: How does Simon Jenkins (Letters, 2...]

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The Belgrano incident Sir: How does Simon Jenkins (Letters, 2 July) reply to this question: Why was the Foreign Secretary not informed immediately the Prime Minister...

[Sir: As the CO of a gunboat in World War...]

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Sir: As the (CO (t a gunboat in World War I Iwo, Ima-ty I be plermitlred to make olle furIlher comniltCi on the Belgran;o incident. In wart thie top priority is to will. 1I'...

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Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir David Pryce-Jones

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Books Inner horizons Philip Larkin Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir David Pryce-Jones (Collins £12.50) This is a lop-sided book. The first section is an account (126...

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The Last Summer Kirsty McLeod

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Negrification - - - Max Egremont The Lasl Summer Kirsty McLcod (Collins £10.95) The suminner of 1914. Golden youths about to be cut dowvn in their prime. A world ignorant of...

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The Collected Stories Dylan Thomas

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Gruesome Peter Levi The Collected Stories Dylan Thomas (Dent £8.50) D ylan Thomas might have been alive today. He never lived to be 40; he died 30 years ago- of playing a...

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Caravaggio Howard Hibbard

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Shady Marc Jordan Caravaggio Howard Hibbard (Thames and Hudson £22.50) veryone got very hot about Caravaggio at last year's Royal Academy show, 'Painting in Naples'. Three of...

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Franz Kafka of Prague Jiri Grusa The Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka Patrick Skene Catling Franz Kafka of Prague Jiri Grusa (Secker & Warburg £5.95) The Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka (Allen Lane £14.95) Last...

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The Windsurf Boy Bel Mooney Telling Tales Sara Maitland

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Promising Francis King The Windsurf Boy Bel Mooney (Cape £7.95) Telling Tales Sara Maitland (Journeyman Press £3.75) Nothing is more destructive of promise than to have it...

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The Cathedral Builders Jean Gimpel Translated by Teresa Waugh

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Crocketed Eric Christiansen The Cathedral Builders Jean Gimpel Translated by Teresa Waugh (Michael Russell £9.95) C athedrals are more roomy than pyramids, bigger than...

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La Douceur de Vivre

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Arts Stepping lightly David Wakefield La D)ouceur de Vivre (Wildenstein) The exhibition at Wildenstein's, provocatively and unfashionably entitled La Douceur de Vivre (until...

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Peter Phillips retroVISION: paintings 1960-1982 and That's Shell-That is! an exhibition of Shell advertising art Allen Jones, recent works

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Art On form John McEwen Peter Phillips retroVISION: paintings 1960-1982 and That's Shell - That is! an exhibition of Shell advertising art (Barbican Art Gallery till 4...

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The Crimes of Vautrin (Almeida) The Perfectionist (Hampstead) Woza Albert! (Criterion) Fiddler on the Roof (Apollo Victoria) Theatre of the Film Noir (Tricycle)

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Theatre Almost perfect Giles Gordon The Crimes of Vautrin (Alincida) The Perfectionist (Hampstead) Woza Albert! (Criterion) Fiddler on the Roof (Apollo Victoria) Theatre of...

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No change

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Television No change Richard Ingrams One of the pleasures for the television critic of being on holiday is to look at the television schedules in the newspapers - in Malta...

High life

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High life Breast-beating Taki New York Thank God Wimbledon is over; tlhe matches I watched seemed like war, as if the participants had lost the idea that tennis, after all,...

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Low life

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Low life Bucking broncho Jeffrey Bernard Last Tuesday was as nasty a day as I call remember. I had a bronchoscopy at the Brompton Chest Hospital and it made my eyes water I...

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