Rock Of Ages
Sir: I am no great fan of Sinead O'Connor, but stand up for her against the tired cynicism of Marcus Berkmann (Pop music, 9 March 1991), who tramps some well- worn territory.......
Sir: I Mistrust Mr Forbes's Professions Of Classlessness,...
his dislike of the words 'pudding' and goo' etc. . . I sense in his rather fastidious prose style, and name dropping (Duke of Beaufort, Taki), a deeper, hidden snobbery. I......
Verb. Sap.
Sir: Your High life columnist accuses me (23 March) of having 'spent all last year bombarding editors with epistles deman- ding Taki's dismissal'. Not so. I did once write a......
Limited Interest
Sir: A number of us here in hedonistic Sydney, so far from Gstaad, are puzzled, and more, by Alastair Forbes's first sent- ence (Diary, 16 March) for we are unsure just who has......
Sir: C. H. Rolph Will Find Reference To The Phrase
'between two stools' on page 57 of The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. More than half a dozen sources from Seneca to Trollope are listed. A typical reference comes from......
Lawrence Of The Railway
Sir: James Buchan ('Well educated heads in the sand. . .', 30 March) was being naive in expecting the people of Yanbu to remember T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence did pass through the......
Stools Pigeon
Sir: It may be that the origin of the phrase `falling between two stools', which puzzles Mr C. H. Rolph (Letters, 30 March), may be found in a party game called 'Choosing the......
Black Pessimism
Sir: James Hughes-Onslow asserts (Let- ters, 23 March) that in my 16 February article I was suggesting that the third Marquess of Salisbury was 'encouraging racial prejudice' in......
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