Sir: If Baroness Blackstone Is To Be Nomi- Nated It
seems grossly unfair to leave out Baroness Jay. Roy Jenkins and Martin Ainis come to mind, but each has the quality Widmerpool conspicuously lacks, i.e. style. In the Fifties we......
Sir: I Loved Frank Johnson's 'paging Mr Widmerpool' Though I
was a little dismayed to learn that so many of his acquaintances are putting themselves forward as counter- parts of Anthony Powell's creation. I do hope they are doing......
Widmerpool Nominations
Sir: I was intrigued by Frank Johnson's piece about the possibility of the existence of real Widmerpools among us today (Shared opinion, 25 October). I noticed in the second......
Letters Only Joking
Sir: As regards The City of Light by 'Jacob of Ancona' (`Chinese fake away?', 25 Octo- ber), surely the first question to put to David Selbourne should have been what language......
Sir: Reading Anthony Powell's Dance 20 Years Ago, The...
fear gripped me and others among my ambitious acquaintances that we might be our own Widmerpools. However, now that I and they have all become wallflowers, I feel free to......
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