Early Flight
Sir: 'It is certainly a quotation all right', Colin Welch says in condemning the phrase 'the necessary killing' which he attributes to a `blood-chilling poem' by Auden (Books, 8......
Poor Taste
Sir: Hilary Corke exposes much of Heaney's verse as pretentious nonsense, and tells us that it is not poetry but `gestures towards poetry' (Books, 8 June). But poor judges in......
Sir: I Think Colin Welch Was Looking At The Wrong
menu when he was tucking into Auden (Books, 8 June). He wasn't a fishcake in the snow, he was a wedding cake that had been left out in the rain all night. Much more elaborate.......
Better News
Sir: David Parsons (Letters, 18 May) has either fallen into the etymological fallacy or failed to notice that English words often have more than one sense. Certainly, following......
Prudent Limits
Sir: I refer to your editorial 'The limits of Prudence' (18 May). The Americans have attempted an imaginative solution to the paradox of declining wages and benefits for workers......
Sic Joke
Sir: There is a special hell reserved for those who thank God that they are not as other men are through the use of `(sic]'. Occasionally, however, Nemesis catches up with them......
Race Row
Sir: It is a pity that your comment on the John Drummond v. Nigel Kennedy bout should begin with two errors of fact (Lead- ing article, 15 June). John Drummond did not......
Spare The Coppers
Sir: Without wishing to become embroiled in any debate about 'government support for the police', may I make one or two points about Simon Heifer's article (`The Force is not......
Good Idea
Sir: Rory Knight Bruce, wearing his hat as editor of the Evening Standard's London- er's Diary, writes of his distaste for Hew Kennedy's escapades with his siege engine......
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