19 JULY 1963, page 8

Brains In The Family John Strachey, Whom I Never Met,

always man- aged to come across to me as a good man with a good brain, and I choose to regard his recorded mistakes as evidence of pragmatic energy; per- haps because I feel I......

Notebook A Spectator's

T HE mere existence of vast personal wealth or hereditary titles is, of course, an affront to the dignity 'of man. I decided this when I was fourteen, and nothing has been able......

South American Solutions

By HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY A FEW months ago in Rio de Janeiro, Helder il i. Climara, auxiliary archbishop of the city and one of the foremost religious leaders in the western......

Semantic Antic Malcolm Bradbury Has Written In The...

of 20th Century a provocative little intro- duction to a study of the changing fashion in our language of morality. There's good thesis material for somebody in this, if it can......

Rich Round 0 It Is Becoming Possible To Believe That

regional language, too, will remain as a permanent baffle- ment in this tiny island. There was a time when we Cassandras were sure that local accents would inevitably be......

Patriotic Pop When A Disillusioned Visitor Returns To...

Britain has gone soggy on him, the most difficult thing of all to defend is the sludgy pop music that drove him to despair. Something must be said for pop, all the same, and......