10 DECEMBER 1988, page 38

A Coroner's Report On Language

Peter Vansittart FIELDS OF VISION by D. J. Enright OUP, £14.95, pp.248 A Spectator columnist recently profes- sed bewilderment at the recurring phe- nomenon of D. J. Enright, as......

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