14 MAY 1948, page 16

Resistentialism

SIR,—Dr. Allen has brought up a problem which has already caused a split among the Resistentialists. The question whether a passive or active attitude should be adopted towards......

The Lords And Hanging

SIR,—Mr. Strang writes to disparage, in terms of supercilious arrogance, the debate in the House of Lords upon capital punishment. Not many, I feel, will agree with his......

Monopoly Legislation

Snt,—Your remarks on the report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Distribution of Building Materials and Components rest on a miscon- ception of American experience which......

Cleeve House, Goring-cn-thames. E. M. Venables. Sir,—in...

May 7th, Mr. W. J. Strang appears to be yet another of those modem psychologists who believe that all wrongdoers, from murderers to small boys who break shop windows, are mental......

Sweet Prince ?

Sta,—Mr. de Madariaga is always read with pleasure and profit, and obviously On Hamlet will give most of us an invigorating shock. " The romantic measles of the nineteenth......

Sir,—allow Me To Say In Reply To Mr. Fleming That

Bradley did not sponsor the " good boy " view of Hamlet. His theory of Shakespearian tragedy was that the defects, mental or moral, of the hero unfitted him from coping with......

Stu,—i Feel We All Owe A Debt Of Gratitude To

Dr. C. K. Allen for his masterly and erudite synthesis of some aspects—and those of universal interest—of resistentialism. On considering his letter I wondered whether this......