17 APRIL 1959, page 7

The Newspapers Gave A Good Coverage To The Death Of

Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect who was as much legend as man. There is not much to add to what they have said, apart from personal reminiscences of him. For two years I have......

When 'paper And Rags' Were Found Burning In Three Different

places—in a bathroom, in an air- conditioning room, and beside a turbo-generator room—in the aircraft carrier Eagle last Saturday, it seemed reasonable to suppose that they were......

The Main Impression Derived From Reading The...

new survey, The Press in Authoritarian Countries, is one of stupe- fying boredom. Not boredom with the survey, but with life in such countries. It is true that when the authors......

What Did The Great Man Say? Too Much To Remember,

and too fast to write it down. But some of it sticks in the memory. 'Literature tells about man, but architecture presents him. What you get is the man, in spite of him,......

Describing The New York Drama Critics' Annual 'awards'...

the Manchester Guardian last week, Alastair Cooke stated that `Mr. Kenneth Tynan, the infant Dalai Lama of the European theatre, recently pronounced A Raisin in the Sun, the......

Sixty Years Ago Homosexuality Was Called— During The...

trial—'the love that dare not speak its name'; but l thought that its name had been heard often enough since in Parliament, on television, and (in spite of the long resistance......