28 FEBRUARY 1970, page 21

Arts The Third And Its Throes

HENRY TUBE The marked resemblance of recent pro- nouncements from the BBC to the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett is not fortuitous. We are apt to assume that the world about which......

Music Off Beat

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER What are we to make of the twentieth cen- tury's attraction to the restless beat of jazz? From that moment seventy years ago when the first tinklings of......