Washed In Public
Sir : Not having read the autobiography of N. Podhoretz, reviewed in the SPECTATOR of 30 August, I can't say whether the flagrant untruth you print there is due to the reviewer......
Causa Finita Est?
Sir : I should like to begin my reply to Mr R. L. Travers—unfortunately I do not know his military or naval rank—by pointing out that I am not an 'academic Catholic' (Letters,......
Lion Couchant
Sir : Mr E. N. Smedley Aston asks (Letters, 23 August) into which of Mr Nicholas Daven- port's three categories the film, Girl on a Motorcycle, would fit. I suspect that it......
Sir : Although I Am Not A Regular Subscriber To
your periodical, I feel obliged to sample a little of what you have to oiler from time to time. It was with great delight that I came across Tibor Szamuely's recent review of......
Sir: Mr Simon Raven's Primer Was Termed Immoral By Mr
John Pritchett (Letters, 30 August), and by conventimal standards it ob- viously is. He deals with human character and conduct not in terms of moral judgments, but by......
A Moral Primer
Sir : Is Mr Raven writing facetiously or in earnest (2 August)? If the former, his article is in dangerously bad taste; if the latter, it is pathetic. I restrict myself to three......
Credo Of A Penal Reformer
Sir: I overlook Mr John Braine's charming irrelevancies and non-sequiturs (Letters, 30 August). But I don't think that I ought, for his own sake, to allow him to rewrite......