30 OCTOBER 1971, page 18

Tainting The Lily

Kenneth Hurren Fyodor Dostoievsky, who pushed a maniacally prodigal pen when the mood was on him, put a quarter of a million words into his novel, The Idiot. Plagued by debts,......

Fair Returns

Hugh Macpherson The revival of Fidelio with which Colin Davis introduced himself as the musical director of the Royal Opera, was a strangely uneven affair. Of course Fidelio is......

Old Master

Evan Anthony Bear with me — and yet another piece about you-know-who. After all, it isn't every day that a man reaches his ninetieth birthday, and without any great impairment......