Letters
The psychiatric vote Sir: I refer to the article by Thomas Szasz titled 'Lunatic reform' (4 December), which Is concerned about the recent enfranchise- ,, in eut of psychiatric......
Carolyn Forche
Sir: Readers of Nicholas von Hoffman's ar- ticle 'A poetry of witness' (27 November), may like to know that we shall be publishing Carolyn Forche's book of poems The Country......
Offended
Sir: I read A. N. Wilson's review of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (Spectator, 27 November) with growing anger. I was appalled to discover that, although a......
Cause For Concern
Sir: As a doctor (and a psychiatrist) I ap- plaud your new-found sympathy with the anti-vivisectionists (Notebook, 4 December) and share your concern about the unhinged......
An Old Story
, • Christopher Booker is quite wrong to ( 7 , in his article on the death of Brezhnev s ° November), that 'the Communist : ste m • . . is like nothing ever seen before e , 11......
Memories Of Mao
Sir: Murray Sayle might have been able to sum up this year's harvest in China from a train window (27 November), but one must assume that his view of Tien An Min square in......
Come By Here
Sir: Many years ago in the West Indies they were singing a simple hymn, 'Come by here, O Lord, come by here'. No one could doubt its meaning although the local pro- nounciation......
Sir: It Is Odd Of Murray Sayle To Call Mao
Tse-tung a 'quintessentially Shanghai per- son' (4 December). China has been a com- munist state for thirty-odd years precisely because he was not. Mao spent little time in......
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