AT GENEVA, the British Foreign Secretary said that he came 'back and back again to verification as the point on which the success or failure of our conference will turn.' Mr....

( DARE say,' said Mr. Jo Grimond, writing before Orpington, 'we could get a lot of votes as Poujadists or as exhibitionists of one sort or another.' While no one would accuse...

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B y transferring the emphasis of the Geneva discussions to the word 'verification' from that of `inspection' Lord Home may seem simply to have achieved a distinction without a...

T HE fifth anniversary of the Homicide Act, which all right-thinking hangers celebrate this week, marks the end of the generally- accepted period in which this inefficient...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON R FADERS of the Times may have spotted a paragraph from 'Our Correspondent, BARK- ING, March 14,' reporting the proposed con- struction of buildings over...

T HE cease-fire in Algeria is a triumph for Presi- de Gaulle as well as for the leaders of the FLN. More important, it is a triumph for moderation in a situation which was...

T HE Electrical Trades Union has been, in the end, successfully purged of the Communist corruption that controlled it for so long. It is a sad commentary on the state of the...

F IELD-MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN is at it again. Wherever there is a country whose rulers' actions against their own people are, even by the standards of the...

By SEAN KENNY T HE white-haired old man sitting behind the big drawing-board waved his stick over his head : 'Look for the central idea—then look for a form closely related to...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP Few defence debates pass without a row of sorts, and this year was no exception. It was the fault of Mr. Harold Wilson. For during his speech on the...

By RICHARD BAILEY E ARLIER this month the Chancellor set the National Economic Development Council three tasks 'that can be summarised as finding out what the economy has been...

which the Bridges Syndicate had to face was whether the University or the College should be the administrative unit at Cambridge. Shall Cambridge (and Oxford) be federal or...

Where are You, Mr. Gregory? By BRIAN INGLIS F xAcTLY four years ago the public opinion polls (there were several then, though it later transpired that some were from the same...

a literature of assent, has been such as to make Dr. Leavis's characteristically inde- pendent comments in your pages most timely. In Commonweal for October 12, 1956, I...

emptied over Dr. Leavis's head last week has had time to settle, perhaps a few facts would help to sweeten the air. I. Mr. Gerhardi made great play with the phrase 'defunct...

Wagner, T. T. Roe, Michael A yrton, Sarah Gainham, Dr. Peter Green; Remington Rose, A. M. Mitnardiere and P. A. Bill, Margot Heinemann. J. Bodingion, G. N. A. Guinness, J. F. L....

attack Dr. F. R. Leavis over his Richmond Lecture provide the interested student with a first-rate social document for the condition of our time. A condition described by Ortega...

question shines dimly in Dr. Leavis's text. 'Who,' he asks, after taking a swipe at our jam- smeared working classes, 'will assert that the average member of a modern society is...

say Hochniut, as one of the worst syntaxists (I bet there's no such word) ever to get into print, how smashing I thought Leavis was on Snow? And how even better Mr. Gerhardi's...

I have never met either Sir Charles Snow or Dr. Leavis, though I was familiar with the work of both men before I came to England. I have had no part previously in the...

applicable to himself that I can't help feeling his real worry is doubt about his own raison d'être in the literary world. It is Leavis, not Snow, who has a significantly ugly...

'Science' on the other seems basically to have arisen from the twentieth century's confusion of science with technology. In Russia no such dis- tinction exists, science is a...

This involves the redefinition of a novel as 'a novel approved by Dr. Leavis'—and that makes a pretty restricted class. But novelist or not, Snow has written a number of prose...

P. Snow among your readers, might I slip in a small discordant tinkle amid the clashing of the bells and say how grateful some of my colleagues in adult education and I feel...

SIR,—In your issue of March 2, Olivia Manning rightly contrasts the 'choice of hors-d'oeuvre or bread- and-marg' diet provided by modern writers with the nineteenth-century...

fatuous correspondence of the follow- ng week. When there is such an outpouring of niminy- Piminy mealy-mouthed stuff and nonsense from the literary establishment (which is...

you published about the appalling quality of so much draught beer. It would have been interesting to sec what sort of defence could be put forward for the gassed-up pasteurised...

the attack, it is surely only just to admit the basic truth of Leavis's criticism of Snow's work as a novelist and populariser of ideas. The cries of indignation with which you...

SIR, —The mention by Leslie Adrian in 'Consuming Interest' of the twenty-four-hours-a-day travel ser- vice given by Mr. Cavendish of L. W. Morland might give some readers the...

with all their faults, tell us something of the world we live in. He is a scientist and has known from inside 'the Corridors of Power.* Leavis isn't and hasn't. Perhaps it is...

Sat,-1 have been commissioned by Messrs. Heine- mann's to write a book on The Honours Machine, a study of the role of Honours in Party Politics. Since much of this goes...

Sus,—Much of the argument io your columns might have been obviated by a cursory inspection of my article 'Lawrence, Joyce and Powys' in Essays in Criticism (Oxford). October....

and unsolicited attack on Sir Charles Snow, and your own lack of good taste in Publishing it. In order that such a vicious attack upon a sub- itantial public figure may receive...

SIR,—Colin H. MacKay is, of course, joking. His barbed cabers of criticism tossed at London and Londoners in your columns (March 16) are, I am sure, gems of Gaelic humour, Well,...

SIR. —By J. I-1. Plumb's definition I write as a mem- ber of the bulk of the nation—'the anonymous.' I never had a nannie, I didn't go to a prep-school, among my relations are...

Winter Discontents By DAVID CAIRNS I SEE, from that good old standby Toye's Verdi, that the great man found the Lon- don winter horribly devitalis- ing. In this, as in so much...

Behind Leonardo By HUGH GRAHAM WHEN the President and Council of the Royal Academy decided to send their Leonardo cartoon for auction at Sothe- by's, they can scarcely have...

Lovely on the Whole By BAMBER GASCOIGNE At the beginning of Act II Jenny has been on the job five afternoons a week for six weeks. She is manifestly happier, healthier, kinder...

Ides of March By CLIVE BARNES Now this is a bad month; that is why I picked on it. But it only exaggerates the dangerous tendency of the Royal Ballet to rely on the past. The...

BBC coverage of the Orpington by-election made for the most entertaining and suspenseful viewing in a long time. While the results were being slowly counted, Robert Kee, on the...

Tongs and Bones By ISABEL QUIGLY The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Coliseum.) IT happened with Nicholas Ray and King of Kings. It happens now with Vincente Minelli. A...

BY TONY TANNER mt rush from place to place?' said Law- rence when refusing to buy the car that Aldous Huxley offered him. Yet if my count is correct he made something like...

A Scattering of Dust. By Herb Greer. (Hutchin- son, 21s.) MR. GREER, an American photographer, was one of the first journalists to visit and report on the Algerian nationalist...

SEVENTEEN years and goodness knows how many volumes of spiteful diaries later, who is unaware that the Second World War. was in reality a whole series of wars, of which those...

Last Year at Marienbad. By Alain Robbe- Grillet. Translated by Richard Howard. (Calder, 22s.; paperback, 13s. 6d.) IT is easy to lose one's temper about Marienbad; not doing so...

'I MUST admit that the extreme nature of the Hull fisherman's job attracted me, just as it attracted Mr. Priestley in 1934. I too thought the fishermen would be more interesting...

Revolutionary Road. By Richard Yates. (Deutsch, 18s.) Strike the Father Dead. By John Wain. (Mac- millan, 18s.) WHY is it that American novelists seem to write so very much...

Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. By Paul Gauguin. (Bruno Cassirer, 63s.) Paul Gauguin: Watercolours, Pastels and Draw- ings in Colour. Edited by Jean Leymarie. (Faber, 45s.)...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ON arriving at the Treasury Mr. Lloyd was credited with the newcomer's burning desire to sweep away all the archaic procedures of the Establish- ment, to...

By CUSTOS MHE weight of new issues is damping down I the share markets. There has been an excep- tional rush of fixed-interest issues, anxious' to precede the Budget with its...

T HE chairman of Hoover Ltd., Mr. Herbert Hoover, points out in his report for 1961 that too much capacity pressed on a reduced market creates severe competition. This is...

Widows Might By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Many of them are purely practical. The national widows' pension is quite inadequate and even now the earnings limit has gone up a widow with...

the heading 'Hadn't You Heard?' an article by Miss Katharine Whitehorn generally on the sub- ject of rumour. We are informed that part of the third paragraph of this article...

Five Up By LESLIE ADRIAN The appearance of Miss Gundrey's long- promised handbook for shoppers offers an op- portunity to generalise a little about what has been happening...

THERE had been rumours for some time that a Paris restaur- ant was to be upgraded by the Guide Michelin from two stars to three, and I guessed that it must be Lasserre. Sure...