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Postscript

Esprit d'escalier P. J. Kavanagh w hen we are young we are used to the sudden, inexplicable, verbal vio- lences of grown-ups — the swearing park- attendant, who thinks we are......

Low Life

Nothing doing Jeffrey Bernard M y typewriter keeps giving me re- .proachful looks and obviously thinks m having an affair with a pub. What dear Monica Electric de Luxe can't......

High Life

Truman Taki I 've rarely heard Gianni Agnelli, that most charismatic and charming of men , sound sadder over the telephone. We spoke last Sunday and it was the chairman of Fiat......