1 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 5

Ton I Paine

Sir: Your reviewer, Richard Luckett, has surely been less than fair to Miss Audrey Williamson's Life of Thomas Paine (August 18) when he implies that her Portrait of that great......

Sir. Being Apparently Opposed To Paine's Political...

(August 18) has been less than fair to the evidence in my book and has misread some of it (Paine, for inStance, did not marry his landlord's Widow but his young daughter, and......

Universities Bad Year

Sir: How rare and refreshing to read so san an article as 'Bad Year for the Universities' by Donald Watt (August 18). All I should like to add is that Professor Eysenck failed......

Censorship

Sir: Mr Lindsay's letter (July 28) will support the inference that Clockwork Orange might be of value as a tract for showing to audiences of politicians, school-masters and......

Whose Freedom?

From Dr Konstantin Bcizarov Sir: It was very sensible of Alastair MacGregor (July 14) to "leave others to refute " me if the best that he can do is to suggest that the merits of......

'the Bacchae'

Sir: A double fault for Will Waspe. Michael Blackmore and John Dexter did not, as he claims, turn down The Barchae. Nor is it true that The Bacchae is my "last National baby."......

Lee At Home From Mrs, S. N. Nanporia

Sir: One wonders how the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, allowed the Commonwealth Prime Minister's community to "let their hair down " when he strictly bans some......