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Why Did No One Send Off The Clowns?

Christopher Hitchens THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREEK COLONELS by C.M. Woodhouse Granada, £12.95 S ombre, sanguinary clowns.' That was the considered judgment of Philip Deane......

A Modern Emma Woodhouse

Harriet Waugh UNEXPLAINED LAUGHTER by Alice Thomas Ellis Duckworth, £8.95 I n her short, edged comedies of human failure in the face of some ultimate good , Alice Thomas Ellis......

A Finnish Knight With No Humbug

J. Enoch Powell CRUSADE: A LIFE AGAINST THE CALAMITOUS TWENTIETH CENTURY by Patrick Donner Sherwood, £12.50 L ady Donner was right to insist on Sir Patrick writing what, despite......