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Letting 'i Dare Not' Wait Upon `i Would'

Caroline Moore A CLOSED EYE by Anita Brookner Cape, £13.99, pp. 255 T his is a book about courage, or the lack of it, and about honesty, the broker for both courage and......

A Whimsical Explanation Of Disillusion

Robert Silver A CLIMATE FOR APPEASEMENT by Terence L. Lewis Peter Lang, New York, £28, pp. 234 I have just spent nine months in Cam- bridge probing links between British foreign......