12 JUNE 1982, page 20

Life On Earth

John Stewart Collis The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture Fritjof Capra ( Wildwood House £9.50) I t has always seemed to me an extraord- i nary thing that......

Paying Homage

Peter Levi Larkin at Sixty edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber £7.95) hilip Larkin says that a poem is a comp- lete lete thing, like an egg; that suggests a family resemblance......

The Friend

Brian Masters The Life and Times of Grigorii Ra Alex de Jonge (Collins £9.95) rendered her totally dependent o un savoury peasant with the staring eyes, n t hsi t s p o u t he......