Venus Tout Entiere
Sir: In response to the point raised in Frank Johnson's Diary (19 September), I think that the greatness of Racine's line has something to do with the alternation of open vowel......
Sir: If The Partly Belgian Peregrine Worsthorne Wants All...
British nations to be nice to each other, then how is it he describes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as a `slightly disreputable Welsh maverick' (As I was saying, 26 September)? Wasn't......
Race Relations
Sir: I agree with your correspondent, Michael Wyndham (Letters, 26 Septem- ber), about excluding the Scots from credit for England's military triumphs in the Mid- dle Ages and......
Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne (england Don't Arise!', 19...
the loss of Scotland 'would be like the loss of a leg'. Not to this Englishwoman it wouldn't. It would be more like scraping the barnacles off the hull or cutting the ivy away......
Sir: The English Are A Wonderful Race. They Have Only
one fault. They cannot under- stand why the rest of the world does not wish to become English too. Michael Grey 6 St Thomas Road, Edinburgh......
Sir: The Assertion In Mr Alan Ford's Letter (26 September)
that 'England has given more to Western civilisation in the arts, lit- erature, poetry, the sciences et al. than any other country' prompts one or two queries. Does he mean 'the......
Letters Shooting Star
Sir: A man wins four gold medals for Eng- land at the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games, the second highest gold medal tally of the Games behind an Australian swim- mer. This feat......
Sir: Jonathan Wateridge's Scotsmen On Your 15 August...
authenticity in one particular only: at least three of the five have a full set of teeth. John Hughes Av. Roberto del Rio 1041, Depto 702, Providencia, Santiago, Chile......
Sir: Racine Is One Of France's Greatest Poets And There
are lines in his various plays that are justly regarded as the apogee of French poetic utterance, notably in Berenice. In Phedre Ariane, ma soeur! De quel amour blessee, Vous......
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