12 OCTOBER 1996, Page 34
Coarse source
Sir: How odd that your leader (28 Septem- ber) on Lady Thatcher's James Bryce lec- ture failed to remark on the absurd contra- diction in her condemnation of contempo- rary 'coarsening of everything from art to music to literature to film' coupled with her praise for the source of most of that coars- ening, the United States.
D.J. Woodhead
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