Gavin Ewart When I Was An Undergraduate At Cambridge...
Dr. Leavis was my English Super- visor, and I had rooms directly below Dr. Snow in Christ's College. Contrary to what one might expect, I found Dr. Snow (whom I knew socially......
Anthony Storr Dr. Leavis's Outburst Against C. P. Snow Will
surely evoke almost as many counter-attacks upon himself as would gratify him. I will there- fore confine myself to one small point. Dr. Leavis says: 'That he has really been a......
G. 's. Fraser Somebody Might As Well Stick His Neck
out. Dr. Leavis's lecture on C. P. Snow is one of thz greatest rhetorical performances I have ever read, for mounting splendour of scornful irony and of rage benignly laughing......
M. S. Deol The Myth Of Snow, The Great Thinker,
is not the only one to reach us from Cambridge of late. There is also the myth of Leavis, the great critic. If one is the product of Sunday papers, the other is the creation of......
Ronald Millar Leavis On Snow Is The Boomerang Of The
year. The splenetic doctor's attempt at professional assassination is so ludicrou , l!, overdone as to be laughable. The original leak of provocative snippets was full of......
Sir Oliver Scott Mr. Leavis Writes: 'but It Is Basic
cliché—more damagingly, for Snow's pretensions, cliché than the kind of thing I instanced first, for it dismisses the issue, tacitly eliminates the problem, discussion of which......
Arnold L. Haskell Dr. Leavis's Lecture, Given Its Full Text
in your last issue, is a demonstration of ill-mannered, self-centred and destructive adolescent behaviour that will surely be of interest to the psychologist. The whole lecture......
C. R. 0. Jones I Have No Special Admiration For
Sir Charles Snow; but my reaction to DI. Leavis's lecture must have been shared by many. How can a man able to write: `The judgment I have to come out with is that not only is......
Peter Jai' A Man May Be Ignorant Of History And
slip- shod in his mode of expression, as C. P. Snow often is, and yet be able to state an important truth, while another may display vast learning and great powers of analysis,......
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