Sir: Mr Dhiren Bhagat Says That The Poem He Quotes
refers to homosexuality. The only reference the poet makes to the man's sexual tastes is to say that he is going to be married. We must suppose therefore that he is......
Low Jibes
Sir: In the interests of veracity, I must correct the flagrant errors in the 'Low life' article last week. Your correspondent's 'blind date', whom I know, is indeed very......
`gaily' Not 'gay'
Sir: Dhiren Bhagat (Letters, 15 Septem- ber) cannot be serious. What he wants of the line: To church a gallaunt jetted gaie is grammatically impossible. The function of the word......
Pantomime Production
Sir: When Rodney Milnes began saying in his review of Turandot (Opera, 8 Septem- ber) that it was 'customarily staged like some ghastly Christmas-tide provincial Aladdin', I was......
Operation Zipper
Sir: I am gathering material for a book about the end of the war in the Far East, and would like to contact any of your readers who landed on Morib beach on D-Day for Operation......
Southern Proles
Sir: If Peregrine WorsthornA ever stooped to using public transport in the south (Diary, 6 October), he would discover that there are genuine proles here too. Who does he think......
Merde
Sir: David Ekserdjian points out in his admirable review of Christopher Wright's The Art of the Forger (Books, 6 October) that this author's suspicions concerning the Fortune......
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