Conference Town Blackpool, So I Hear, Is Not The Most
popular of conference resorts, either with journalists or with politicians. For one thing, the train service is at best dilatory; then there is the impossi- bility of getting......
Conductorless Opera Sitting Down Before Nigerian Opera As...
the Commonwealth Arts Festival, white legisseurs sighed admiringly. Here was something Europe simply cannot do. The sample was Oba- Koso ('The King Does Not Hang'). In this......
Wingless Words This Season Of Mists Is Also, Aptly, The
season of oratory: and even partial exposure to the political conferences so far reminds one of the mediocrity of most public speaking today. Per- haps, since more and more......
Lal Age-making H According To Walter Terry In Wednesday's...
Wilson has been complaining to fhe BBC about the television treatment of the ,abour , conference. He objected, apparently, to r. Clive Jenkins, the left-wing trade union te.......
A Place In My Mind
Honky-tonk and Black Poetics By STANLEY REYNOLDS L GENDS by definition are larger than life. This makes it always surprising to find that, say, Mae West, that Empire State......
Domestic Strife I Have Only Just Discovered The Extent (and
growth potential) of the industry sustained by Anobiion punctatum. Xestobium rufovillosum, and even Hylotrupes bajalus. My imminent move to another hquse has brought the matter......
Spectator's Notebook
I T is hard to take the new British strong-arm methods in Aden very seriously. I prefer to see them as a prelude to Britain accelerating her departure. It is. after all, very......
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