18 MAY 1962, page 11

Birthday Mother, Let Me Congratulate You On The Birthday Of

your son. You worry so much about him. Here he lies, he earns little, his marriage was unwise, he's long, he's getting thin, he hasn't shaved. Oh, what a miserable loving gaze!......

Gentleness This Can't Go On: Is After All Injustice Of

its kind. How in what year did this come into fashion? Deliberate indifference to the living, deliberate cultivation of the dead. Their shoulders slump and they get drunk......

Encounter We Were Sitting About Taking Coffee In The...

café at Copenhagen where everything was brilliance and comfort and stylish to the point of tedium. The old man suddenly appeared or rather happened like an event of nature, in......

The Making Of A Poet

FIVE POEMS BY YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Yevgeni Yevtushenko, the young Soviet poet who has been visiting this country, was born at Zitna Junction, near Lake Baikal in Siberia, in......

Beastly To The Germans

By CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON T is now twenty-nine years since Hitler came I to power in Germany, eighteen years since our armies expelled the Wehrmacht from France and seventeen......

Talk You're A Brave Man They Tell Me.

I'm not. Courage has never been my quality. Only I thought it disproportionate so to degrade myself as others did. No foundations trembled. My voice no more than laughed at......