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That Hideous And Concealed Strength

Andrei Navrozov GORBACHEV'S STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC REFORM by Anders Aslund Pinter, f35, 12.95, pp. 225 CAN THE SOVIET SYSTEM SURVIVE REFORM? edited by G. R. Urban Pinter, f29.50,......

A Story Of A Lifetime

Francis King SHOWING THE FLAG by Jane Gardam Hamish Hamilton, £11 .95, pp. 162 M any years ago, in Finland, Malcolm Sargent remarked to me that there were performances of an......

After Martial, Viii, 20

You write prolific verse daily logorrhoea of two hundred stanzas at least. You show none of them, recite none of them. You have no talent,......