What Is An Emergency?
Sir : I have generally found the SPECTATOR more fair-minded over the dispute between Rhodesia and Britain than most of the British press. I am therefore a little surprised by......
The Arts-council Grants
Sir: Should not the Arts Council advertise more the conditions under which it makes financial grants? Even when writing (as I did last month) to inquire as to what conditions......
An Lse Letter
Sir : Having followed, in some bewilderment, recent events at the Lse, I read with eagerness the letter from Messrs Bateson and Blackburn (16 May) hoping that this would clarify......
This Kind Of Thing Must Stop
Sir: Re Mr Humphries's criticism of Oscar Wilde by Philippe Jullian (9 May), W. S. Gilbert could not have intended either the character of Bunthorne or Grosvenor as a parody of......
Sir: Mr Weidberg Writes (letters, 23 May) `mr Charles Reid
writes: "Mr Ashbrooke writes : 'This is the obverse of delicacy. . . .' Perhaps so. ." And perhaps if I may say so, not.' And perhaps if we may say so. so. May we point out to......
Butterfly Music
Sir: When I sat College Entrance in 1940, I committed myself to the statement that the Fool was the obverse of Lear. At the viva, the late Gavin Bone (who was subsequently my......
Trust Goode ...
Sir: I read your leading article on 'this week's depressing trade figures' (16 May) just after returning from a visit to the us. Looking around shops and public places produced......
Student Stirs
Sir: It would be a pity to disturb Mr Croft's drinking, fornicating or his appalling puns (Let- ters, 23 May), but participation, whether he likes it or not, is here to stay.......
Troubled Bubbles
Sir: Mr Anthony Burgess's review of the Walter de la Mare anthology, Secret Laughter (16 May), seems an odd mixture of suggestio falsi, inaccuracy, haste and superficiality,......
Heart Of The Matter
Sir: You may consider it appropriate, at this juncture in our national affairs, to draw the attention of Mr Harold Wilson, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, to a......
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