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How Best To Disturb Silence

Lucy Hughes-Hallett THE BEAST IN THE NURSERY by Adam Phillips Faber, £14.99, pp. 133 A dam Phillips begins his essay 'A Stab at Hinting' with three lengthy quotations: one of......

Placebos And Panaceas

Alfred Sherman INSIDE THATCHER'S MONETARIST REVOLUTION by Gordon Pepper Macmillan' lEA, £15.99, pp. 248 T his book has been written ... to correct the popular impression that......