Disgrace To Folkestone
I was particularly pleased to read the excellent reviews of Francis Haskell's scholarly (and amusing) book Patrons and Painters, as I once spent some weeks with the author while......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE recently issued special number of En- counter, which has been organised by Arthur Koestler to assess the condition of contemporary England, is more depressing than anything......
Raising The Anti Miss Hannah Arendt, Herself A Jewess, Is
in trouble for inferring, in her book about the Eichmann business, that Jews have a monopoly neither of virtue nor of truth. It always saddens me to see how hysterical people......
A Poor Standard Of Vice Bleak News From Chums In
Athens. The Greeks, it seems, are going through the phase which the Italians went through some years since—that of 'cleaning things up' in deference to prudish tourists. This is......
It's The Way That You Do It
At the luncheon for cricketers and spectators on the annual occasion of the match between authors and the National Book League, Sir Learie Constantine said that one of the......
Kennedy In Ireland
By BRIAN INGLIS p RESIDENT KENNEDY'S European tour was criticised, before he left, on the ground that he would be visiting a succession of tottering administrations; only in......
Nissen Huts And Madrigals John Hersey's Splendid Novel...
Lover has now been made into a passable film, two scenes of which were shot against the background of King's College, Cambridge. The college is seen at its most elegant and......
A Picture Of Preachment
Now that Torn Jones has been made into what promises to be a profitable film, perhaps pro- - ducers will cease their desperate search among the dregs of current fiction and......
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