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Opera

The Critics' Revenge By DAVID CAIRNS KNOWING better than the creative artist is a favourite obsession of our neurotically analytical age. The habit is growing among music......

Theatre

Words Made Flesh By ALAN BRIEN Bloomsday. (Unity.)—A Pas- sage to India. (Oxford Play- khouse.) IT is an admirable discipline for a critic to find himself flattened nose to nose......