Outstanding Event
Sir: Touching upon your reviewer's column `Fun of the Fair' of 19 September, one can only feel sorry for a writer who appears to be incapable of distinguishing between what he......
Sir: I Bow, Of Course, To Your Radio Critic's Superior
ability in the matter of opening dictionaries, but in mine glasnost is listed under glas or eye, not golos or voice. Anne Kirkness 55 Hyndewood, Bampton Road, Forest Hill,......
Glasnost Corner
Sir: Noel Malcolm was delightful about Radio Moscow (`suspicious behaviour', 5 September) but surely the Russian for `voice' is golos? The word glaznost must derive from glazur......
Too Much Corpsing
Sir: Since John Huston's death I have read three of his obituaries, two of which gave different versions of Huston kneeling by a corpse and exclaiming variants of the phrase......
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