A Trip With The Dictionary
Sir: Anthony Lejeune's fine plea in defence of rationalism (5 June), unfortunately provides an example itself of the 'deliberate vagueness of expression' which the author so......
Crime Friction
Sir: Mr Freeling's statement (5 June) that Mr Hare 'has to learn English' is even truer than he seems to realise. The actual figure of the detective . . . has laid out in the......
Solecist
Sir: There is nothing solecistic, or peculiarly Balliol, about the use of solecism to. describe social gaffes like the drinking of soup at lunch- eon. Reference to Fowler's......
Waugh Victims
Sir: Auberon Waugh begins his review of Philip Norman's novel (5 June) by complaining because the dust-jacket has a picture of the author, Apparently Mr Waugh dis- likes Mr......
Absolute Antithesis
Sir: Stella FitzThomas Hagan was wrong in saying (5 June) that in my letter (22 May) I was confusing absolutism in the political sense with absolutism in the philosophi- cal......
Election Confusion
Sir: Dr Cosgrave's graceless treat- ment of his earlier mistakes comes as no surprise. A comparison of the relevant text of the Nuffield book with his own version, shows that it......
Sir: I Thank Auberon Waugh For His Generous Review Of
my book, Plumridge (5 June), and of my personal appearance. I am very sorry that I am so plain. I must point out, however, that the coat I wear in the dustjacket photograph is......
Return From The Nether World
Sir: How sadly familiar was Simon Raven's description (29 May) of the earbashing he received from those whom Australians would scornfully dismiss as 'whingeing Poms'. In the......
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