Men Of The Sixties
Sir: It is boring to read Colin Welch launch into an attack on the Sixties (Centrepiece, 20 October), because it has been done before. It is odd that he should consider it a......
Sir: May I Add To The Cloud Of Ink Raised
on the subject of 'endives'? In the big Vil- morin Andrieu Catalogue of Vegetable seeds and Plants (no longer available, circa 1955) they are described as Endives ou Chicoree de......
Letters
Chomsky on Cambodia Sir: On seeing Richard West's reference in the Spectator (Books, 29 September), to 'the odious Noam Chomsky', I read on to learn what sins merited this......
Taki's Secret
Sir: Under 'Cooling it' in the 27 October issue, Taki wrote: 'I've made a pledge not to turn the heat on in my flat until Arthur Scargill defects to Libya.' Can someone......
Tolerant Finn
Sir: I am one quarter Finn and I don't mind a bit if Jeffrey Bernard thinks Sibelius was a Swede (Letters, 27 October). My grand - father, together with many of his country -......
Anderson: Concern Grows
Sir:, I'm very worried about Digby Ander- son. It's late October, and us chaps bold enough to face the extra-large north are thinking of venison with rowanberry sauce, or stewed......
Tangled
Monsieur: I love the letter (3 November) about chicory, endive and Dutch witloof wit (white), rlooft (it runs). In the Fifties I visited the departement of Yorkshire to study......
Expense-picking
Sir: I applaud Charles Moore's call for the return of civilised order to the mining villages (Politics, 27 October), but I would suggest a more useful white-collar equiva- lent......
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