13 MAY 1955, page 14

City And Suburban By John Betjeman I F People Can Be

described in terms of buildings, Professor Dawkins was as important to Oxford as is the dome of the Radcliffe Camera to the skyline of the University. He was returning to Exeter......

Absence-proneness

T HE word 'prone' used to mean 'lying face downwards,' just as 'supine! meant `lying face upwards.' (Why is there no similarly concise Latin-based word for the sideways or......