24 OCTOBER 1970, page 17

Nixon's Ego-politics

Sir: I happened to pick up last week's (3 October) copy of the SPECTATOR and turned to an article of John Graham's about the Ego- politics of Mr Nixon etc. I am afraid that I......

A Singular Matter

Sir: In re singular/plural, P. N. L. Lycett misapprehends me. Varia- ability and flexibility (highly-prized attributes of English) arc by no means the same thing as mere mental......

Open University

Sir: - The Open University is por- trayed as an excitingly new devel- opment allowing people who never attended a university to study for a degree. There is nothing new about......

Shakespeare And Dr Rowse

Sir: Allow me to protest vehem- ently, if a little belatedly, against your indecent verbal caricature of Dr A. L. Rowse ('Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Historian'), which you......

Palestine

Sir: So much of what is said and written about the Middle East crisis has either an emotional bias or is too complicated to follow. Having studied the complexities of these......

`conserving The Countryside'

Sir: 'It seems to me sometimes that the industrial revolution has left scars not only on England from which her towns and countryside may never recover but also a scar on her......