Scientific Motion
Sir: Dr Bernard Dixon's picture of the 'itinerant scientist' (January 15), is no doubt a well-meant attempt to prove that the natural sciences have now finlly replaced theology......
Willa And Philip
Sir: If your Willa Spew (January 15) must drag my name into her ravings I wish she'd get things right. I did not go out of my way to recommend Jack Rosenthal's play Another......
Juliette And Vicar
From the Rev W. T. Armstrong Sir: Your Editorial Assistant might have been better employed last week correcting your Film Critic's English usage. She is at least literate, even......
Victor And Stephen
Sir: May I point out that in the Times of January 17 another eminent public figure, Mr Stephen Murphy, secretary of the British Board of Film Censors has joined Lord Rothschild......
Brandreth's Bbc
Sir: I must congratulate you for printing that splendid and subtle attack on the BBC by Gylel Brandreth It imitated those selfrighteous people who think that the BBC con do no......
Unglued Jac
Sir: In a delicious comment on a recent letter (complaining that despite the change from one staple to glue The Spectator still tends to fall apart) you said you must try to......
German Lesson
Sir: The three pages of book reviews on the 'Problems of the Germans' (January 8) raise some interesting issues, but typically dwell on what is ' nasty ' and negative in the......
Spectator, January 22, 197 2
bored by them. The same to the French and Italians ourselves. Nothing will fit us bell, to live human lives alongside vast bureaucratic machinery e ) industrial superstructure......
Having Been Taken
From Miss Margaret Stephens rc Sir: I am sorry that The Spect (January 8) uses " taking " think it means "having." its vertisement on page 41 it 511 i ) "Thinking of . . .......
Malta's Muddle
Sir: May a muddled member 01 , 4' public ask three simple questl ° ,f about Malta to which no one in, .!01 ' press or on radio or televll' seems yet to have suP l r answers, or......