Life With Father
AFTERTHOUGHT PATRICK HUTBER There is a fairly general belief that the inter- pretation of life advanced by the Freudian school is so outrageously at variance with what common......
Universities' Poetry
Sir: As a considerable time has elapsed since the publication of the last issue of Universities' Poetry, and it is even longer since the last UP conference was held, many people......
Waiting For Adolf
Sir: May I be allowed to comment on some of the points raised in your review (29 March) of my book The Last Ditch. In February 1966 I wrote to the reviewer, Colonel Peter......
The Onlie Begetter
Sir : Mr J. W. M. Thompson has got it wrong ('Spectator's notebook,' 12 April). Mr Quintin Hogg did not write that slogan. I did. And the exact words were: 'Life's better with......
Cricket Trad And Mod
Sir: Mr Badams (Letters, 5 April) lacks a sense of fairness and a sense of accuracy. To state that Close bats like a five year old is to plumb the very depths of absurdity.......
Our Mob
Sir: To say that one's natural feeling is 'minus A: but that the force of certain books etc is such as to compel one to a statement of `plus A' is, of course, a powerful way of......