Defense De Traduire
Defense de traduire Sir: The proliferation of infelicitous French idiom in The Spectator unsettles me. Is it all in honour of 1992's approach, or merely virulent affectation?......
[sir: I Have Been Reading The Spectator...]
Punch-drunk Sir: I have been reading The Spectalor | since I gave up the New Statesman aroufl0 1965 and in the main and in general have found its facts impeccably accurate. I......
[sir: It Seems Queer (begging The Press...]
Sir: It seems queer (begging the PreSs I Council's pardon) that Paul Johnson in all his travels has never heard working-class people talk of spoofs' or 'poofters'. As for......
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Family Factors
Family factors Sir: Richard Lovelace is right to ascribe 'the spiritual poverty of the new slums' to cultural factors ('The lower depths', 26 May). Like him I fear for the......
Raith No Wraith
Raith no Wraith Sir: Your Lowestoft reader asserts that no such place as Raith is to be found on a map (Letters, 2 June). What map do they use in Lowestoft? Raith House, in......
Curtain Up
Curtain up Sir: Paul Johnson says 'the Iron Curtain has come down' (The press, 19 May). That is what Churchill said on 12 May 1945. 'An iron curtain is drawn down ....' It is......
[sir: 'i Shoulda Stood In Bed' Was Uttered...]
Sir: 'I shoulda stood in bed' was uttered not by Rocky Graziano - as Taki suggestl with all the authority of a man who cant tell a drag act from a dame - but by Casey Stengel.......
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