Westminster Commentary
QUESTIONS this week have elicited the startling information that the world is now revolving more slowly than it used to. This sinister indication of the decline of the West (and......
It Is An Admission Of Failure, But The Case For
neutral umpires in Test matches now seems to me unanswerable. After one has made all the ritual Pious noises about the difficulties of an umpire's job and about how the man on......
A Spectator's Notebook
THE SILLY SEASON, I suppose, will now be with us until the election, but we are unlikely to be given a worse example of political inanity than the row over the survey 'of public......
In Our Correspondence Columns This Week Mr. Douglas...
that 'Courts of Law are the proper places where the legal fate of books should be decided,' and that Lolita should not 'be lifted out of the reach of the law, by having literary......
Mr. Woodruff Asks If I Had Forgotten That A Distributor
of Lolita was found guilty of publish- ing an obscene libel in 1956. I had-not forgotten, but am unable to see how those prosecutions are relevant. Mr. Woodruff can hardly......
Publishers' Circulars Are Notoriously Enthu- Siastic, But...
Cape overdid it with a hand-out on a new book about atomic radiation. It began : 'The recent setting-up of a Tissue Bank in this country (a scheme supported by the Medical......
There Is More To Be Pleased About On This Side
of the Atlantic in Senator Fulbright's succession to the chairmanship of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee than that this influential position should have fallen to the......
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