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Books

W riting as 1 do in the days of Mr Gorbachev's dangerous and inept crack- down on the Baltic States, it is difficult not to wonder what could have motivated Sir Ralf Dahrendorf,......

Prayer

High in the night sky Over London, the War God Conjoins the Weeping Sisters, Glowing the same red In Washington and Baghdad, In Sumeria Five millenia ago. Mars, Warrior Lord,......

New Work By Old Master

David Ekserdjian LORENZO MONACO by Marvin Eisenberg Princeton University Press, £55.45, pp.242 G raceful, luminous, delicate, and a touch sentimental — a thumbnail sketch of Fra......