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A Peacock With Flabby Fingers

Fiona Maddocks HOROWITZ: HIS LIFE AND MUSIC by Harold C. Schonberg Simon & Schuster, f20, pp. 427 I f, for reasons of youth or of being other- wise engaged, one missed......

Destruction From Above

Eric Christiansen THE STRIPPING OF THE ALTARS by Eamon Duffy Yale, £29.95, pp. 704 Sin is where Our Lady sat, Heaven turned is to hell, Satan sits where Our Lord did sway,......