Clapped Out
Sir: I enjoyed Serban's Turandot, in spit e of the odd patch of silliness (those skulls!) but I agree with David Tang (Letters, 20 October) about the applause. There's far too......
Orthodox Toilets
Sir: The 'Toilets in the temple' shock horror stories (Another voice, 8 Septem- ber) are not confined to Anglican build- ings. They are upstaged by the gents several yards from......
Sir: A Low Life Freebie To Paris (13 Octo- Ber)
and then a frigid date. Fromage dur, M. Bernard! Krafft-Ebing (no pun in- tended) defined female frigidity — I quote from memory — as 'the inability to induce male erection'.......
Sir: Anyone Who Finds Your Low Life Correspondent 'an...
turn off' must be, by definition, frigid. Anna Haycraft Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd, The Old Piano Factory, 43 Gloucester Crescent, London NW1......
Lime Juice?
Sir: The Spectator does not appear to be read in Finland, or the Finns would be demanding Jeffrey Bernard's head on a charger for calling (22 September) Sibelius a Swede. More......
Diseases
Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft tells us approv- ingly that Dr Trevor Turner says that calling addiction a disease 'is a disgraceful myth by which people absolve themselves of personal......
Richmond, N Ot Not Moles, Voles
Sir: The symptoms described by P. J. Kavanagh (Postscript, 8 September) raised runs, no molehills — suggest that voles, and not moles, are molesting him and his lawn. Shops here......
Low Jibes
Sir: 'In the interests of veracity' I would like to know just how your reader Mr Ireland (Letters, 20 October) can possibly know the truth of Mr Bernard's visit to Longchamp......
Liberty Or The Nhs
Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft (`Opiates and the People', 13 October) falls into the old error of trying to make a meaningful distinction between a drug and a poison on grounds of......
E. C. Booz
Sir: I was surprised to see Nicholas von Hoffman (`The good old days', 6 October) trotting out that old chestnut about the miniature log cabin whisky bottles given out by the......
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