6 MAY 1966, page 14

Stabat Mater

SIR,—Mr M. B. Thompson (Letters, April 22) does well to praise Anton Dermota's singing on Saga's Rossini Stabat Mater disc. He does not mention, however—perhaps he is not aware,......

Campaign On Rhodesia

SIR,—The Anti-Apartheid Movement is embarking on a major campaign which we believe will command the immediate sympathy of many of your readers and will involve us in heavy......

Bear Facts Sir,—i Am Compiling An Anthology And Symposium Of

the Teddy-bear and am very anxious to trace its place in literature, the family and indeed history. Case histories, photographs (returnable) and reminis- cences will be very......

Faugh, By Strix Sir,—maybe The Answer To Janine Hough's...

about Strix is that the kind of man who enjoys slaughtering small birds is the kind of man who, in his callow youth, kept a hunting-crop in the car in order to deal with......

Dybbukism And The Us Intellectual

SIR,—Mr Kazin's letter almost persuades me that it was his purpose to write a personal auto- biography. But he also touched upon political questions, his own past radicalism,......

The Healthy Aged

SIR,—A recent investigation among elderly people in institutions appears to show that much of the mental and physical deterioration we associate with old age is due to poor......

`der Rosenkavalier'

SIR,—I was interested by Charles Reid's comments on the end of Act 1 in Covent Garden's new Rosenkavalier. I attended the dress rehearsal (at which Sena Jurinac put her hand to......

Utterly Absurd

SIR,—Having returned from Ghana on March 5, I was interested to see Mr Szamuely's article of March I1 and Mrs Farthing's comment of April 8. I first visited the Kwame Nkrumah......