Sir: Andrew Aberdein (letters, 22 Febru- Ary) Errs:...
Martineau are by no means the only recipients of Wodehou- sian philosophical criticism. In chapter four of The Mating Season Bertie Wooster censures the Weltanschau- ung of......
Drinker's Quiz
Sir: Jeffrey Bernard wonders who Mickey Finn was (Low life, 15 February). He was a well known purveyor of cocktails in 19th- century Chicago. Reilly, whose life-style Mr Bernard......
Rumanian Request
Sir: 'Spectators for Rumania, Poland and Eastern Europe' is a wonderful project which is much needed. I have continual contact with Rumania, travelling, staying and living as a......
Sandal Slip-up
Sir: Taki describes the people who oppose fox-hunting as 'sandal-wearing socialist poofters' who 'envy' the fox-hunters (High life, 8 February). On the other hand, a poll taken......
Oskar Kokoschka
Sir: I am writing a biography of Oskar Kokoschka, with the approval of Mrs Olda Kokoschka, which is to be published by Bloomsbury and the Viking Press in 1994. I would very much......
The Show Must Go On
Sir: The Arm's Length Principle is much loved by Ministers for the Arts, but appar- ently only selectively, as a way of avoiding difficult questions about the activities of the......
Gussie Fink-nietzsche
Sir: Jeeves, as noted, found Nietzsche 'fun- damentally unsound'. Schopenhauer, Bertie thought 'a grouch'. In Ring for Jeeves there is the following accusation: "the LETTERS......
That's Enough Laski
Sir: This Laski business gets odder and odder. First Hugh Massingberd (All the Queen's men', 1 February) describes Harold Laski as a bore, and now Patrick Marlowe (Letters, 22......
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