Goring On
Sir: A year ago you were kind enough to publish a letter from me which you entitled 'Great Gores of today' (1 April 1995) in reply to one from Mr Gore Vidal about his maternal......
Sir: Don't Sack Christiansen. His Scintillat- Ing,...
entertaining reviews are the reason I buy The Spectator. Bernadette Cruise 22 Elkedra Close, Hawker ACT, Canberra, Australia......
Iron Curtain Melt-down
Sir: There is a much closer precedent for Churchill's use of the phrase 'the iron cur- tain' at Fulton in March 1946 than its appearance in a book by the Russian writer Vasilii......
Don't Sack Rupert
Sir: Rupert Christiansen's Diary (23 March) refers to a sweating, debilitating nervous condition brought on by listening to 0-level Performances of opera. There was nothing......
Internment Experts
Sir: How funny that Ruth Dudley Edwards should advise me, in her splendidly patron- 'Congratulations, Babe — I've got you the part of a sausage in a Wall's commercial.' ising......
Sir: Further To The Letter From Irfon Roberts On The
origins of 'iron curtain', he is certainly correct in attributing it to Vasilii Rozanov in Russian. However, Heller and Nekrich in their book Utopia in Power sug- gest that he......
No Law For Crime
Sir: I feel bound to correct the misappre- hension of your correspondent Gordon Smith (Letters, 23 March) in respect of the Crime Writers' Association. The CWA has never issued......
What About The Book?
Sir: Perhaps you could ask your literary edi- tor to suggest to his reviewers that they say something about the book they are pur- porting to review. Having read Robert......
Hold Very Tight, Please
Sir: Patrick Ussher (Letters, 23 March) seems to have 'suffered Latin' in vain. Everything he says about A.D. Godley's motor-bus poem is wrong. Bum is not the accusative of bos,......
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