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The Jesuits As Heroes

Euan Cameron LAND WITHOUT EVIL by Richard Gott Verso, £18.95, pp. 320 THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE edited by Elizabeth Mayor Weidenfeld, f18.99, pp. 187 I . n the book trade of the late......

Phoney, Clumsy, Witless, Vacant And Boring

Jane Stanton Hitchcock BAD OR, THE DUMBING OF AMERICA by Paul Fussell Simon & Schuster, £6.99, pp. 201 I n order to appreciate fully Paul Fussell's book BAD, it may help to have......