Sir,—mr Seymour-smith Asks (letters, February 3) If I...
Measure for Measure. If he were to read my book Shakespeare's Imagination (second edition, Nebraska University Press), he would find the answer together with some illumination......
A Christmas Sermon
SIR,—Mr Hugh Ross Williamson (Letters, January 27) spent some years ministering—invalidly, he later came to think—sacraments in the Church of Eng- land. He ought now to be......
Arise, Sir Malcolm
SIR,—I want to write and tell you more about the California colleges mentioned in 'Spectator's Note- book' (January 13). First of all, all of the twelve schools you mention are......
Ste2ping The Rot
SIR,—Mrs Dougal (Letters, February 3) is, con- sciously or not, back with the emotional anti- fluoridationalists, teaching dentists the facts of life —and the aetiology of......
Literature And Censorship
gave up being a schoolmaster some years ago; replying to Mr Macklin's letter (February 3) recalls old desperate efforts. Neither my oracular arrogance nor his smugness—about his......
Just In Time
SIR,—Why does John Wells's lively article (January 27) on the non-existence of time, rule out freedom of choice? Presumably it is because choice involves consequences, which......
Sm.—neither Canon Dobson Nor Mr Hugh Ross Williamson Is...
in his views on ecumenism as it affects the Roman Catholic Church; and as one who has lived in a Catholic family for over thirty years I urge those who have Christian unity at......
Sir,—this Appears In The Diary Of John Evelyn Under April
22, 1694 : A fiery exhalation rising out of the sea spread Itselfe in Montgomeryshire a furlong broad, and many miles in length, burning all straw, hay. thatch and grass, but......
Sir,—now That Lent Is Here, Could Not Both Sides Bury
the hatchet? It could always be dug up again —or rather 'resurrected'—at Easter. I dare say Mr Waugh is even now dipping his pen in the vitriol, composing his Easter Sermon.......
Side Effect
Sta.—Surely the gest example of an inverted, or perverted, cliché is the one about the exception proving the rule: this it never does except in the sense of putting it to the......
Sir,—you Say In Your 'notebook' (february 3) That You Are
getting worried about the BBC's sound bulletins. You arc not alone in your anxiety. The six o'clock bulletin, which I once regarded as essen- tial listening, is now no more than......
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