Letters
Oxbridge's blunt instrument Sir: Writing from his 'official address' — to quote Paul Johnson — John Casey ('Attacking scholarship', 19 November) might have given us the benefit......
Poets Amalgamated
Sir: P..1 • Kavanagh's 'Postscript' of 19 November asked, 'why do people come to poetry readings? What do they want of us?' Some of those committed to purifying and......
Bad Irish Joke
Sir: No Irishmen in Shakespeare's plays? Richard West ('Sad Irish joke', 12 November) seems to have forgotten the Irish attendant who accompanies Hamlet (Act III, Scene iii)......
Scattering The Proud
Sir: 'The Magnificat Group' (Letters, 26 November) indeed. 'Do you mind the dain- ty coyness of it?' as Myles na Gopaleen ask- ed in another context. They make no real answer to......
Sir: John Casey, Fellow Of Gonville And Caius,...
19 November) argues as follows. Oxford is changing its admission procedure, schools able to offer seven terms preparation for scholarship examination will suffer, academic......
A Single (early) Life
Sir: May I be allowed to comment briefly on two points in Mr Mark Amory's kind review (19 November) of my Married to a Single Life? First: The book closes when 1 was still in my......
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