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Abolish the Olympics
The SpectatorIt would have been a far, far better thing had the Olympic marathon in Munich broken up, rather than that Rhodesia be excluded in the manner in which she has been. It would have...
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The pound, Europe and the future
The SpectatorLast June we first argued at length why Britain should float the pound. Then, after the Government had done so, we criticised Mr Heath's and Mr Barber's declared policy...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorThe House and the box Hugh Macpherson At the start of the new session, on October 19, the Commons will once more debate the issue of televising its proceedings. In the best...
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Another Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorAs my editor departed for his hols in County Cork last week I promised him that my first Notebook would consist entirely of grouses, some of which I have been saving up for some...
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Ulster
The SpectatorThe great illusion T. E. Utley No prizes will be offered for a correct prediction of the outcome of Mr Whitelaw's conference of the Northern Irish political parties at the end...
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Morocco
The SpectatorGeneral Oufkir's last interview Peter Johnson The last time they tried to kill Hassan, General Mohammed Oufkir called it "an incident on the road." Exactly a year later, in a...
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Aid and trade
The SpectatorHow to help the Third World Michael Sharpston Until recently, the rich developed countries had a virtual monopoly in world trade of manufactures. This is now changing, and the...
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Barbara Hardy on a new monument to Ezra Pound
The SpectatorThis is a strange kind of literary history,• but perhaps it has to be. Our selfconsciousness about the problems of history, judgement and analysis is rapidly making all literary...
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Snobbery in war
The SpectatorAuberon Waugh Timetable for the General Bernard Frizell (Collins 1.80). Heaven forbid that anyone of my generation should seem insufficiently grateful to the generation which...
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Through western spectacles
The SpectatorJoan Robinson China Today Klaus Mehnert (Thames and Hudson E2.50) 800,000,000: The Real China Ross Terrill (Heinemann £2.50) Red Guard: Schoolboy to 'Little General' in Mao's...
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Ivy's league of admirers
The SpectatorJ. I. M. Stewart The Art of I. Compton-Burnett edited by Charles Burkhart (Gollancz £3) He formed a peculiar idea of comick excellence, which he supposed to consist in gay...
A man of letters
The SpectatorDenis Brogan Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York Edmund Wilson (Macmillan £4.50) This posthumous work by Edmund Wilson justifies, if any justification was...
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Bookend
The SpectatorBookbuyer The thriller writer William Haggard was once described by the Sunday Express as the adults' Ian Fleming. His seventeenth book, The Protectors (Cassell £1.80) is...
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Business
The SpectatorHow to handle Big Brother Patrick Cosgrave I have decided that I must be the most patient and tolerant reviewer of books now living. My decision is based on the fact that,...
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Cinema
The SpectatorInto the family business Christopher Hudson The Godfather (` X ' Paramount, Universal, Empire and ABC 1) is a film about the Mafia. It has grossed £20 million so far in...
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Music
The SpectatorCaged round Rodney Milnes I think it was Anthony Hope who emerged from a performance of Peter Pan with the remark, "Oh for an hour of Herod." Puritans attending HPSCHD, the...
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Theatre
The SpectatorStill unclassified Kenneth Hurren The fourth play of Alan Ayckbourn's that London has seen, Time and Time Again, turned up last week at the Comedy, and in the case of almost...
Television
The SpectatorAthletes moot Clive Gammon I've been experiencing at first hand the fury of those who live in 'fringe' reception areas and who pay a full licence fee for viewing what looked...
Levant the savant
The SpectatorBenny Green Oscar Levant, who died in Los Angeles last week, was one of those indeterminate characters whose status is never quite defined either to their own satisfaction or...
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Wi ll
The SpectatorWaspe The salvation of the Olympics by the exclusion of Rhodesia may also have been the salvation of BBC-tv's Munich operation — a numbing 170 hours of coverage. Early this...
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Country Life
The SpectatorStung again Peter Quince Not for the first time, I find myself at odds with the wisdom of the ages as it has been distilled into proverbial form. It is better, so that...
Savoy gift Sir: In paragraphs headed, 'Savoy Gift,' published in
The Spectatoryour City diary on August 12, you refer to the charitable trust, which Miss Bridget D'Oyly. Carte recently estabHshed, by the gift to it of Savoy shares. In the course of your...
Ugandan Asians
The SpectatorSir: After reading your leader on Britain's duty to accept the Ugandan Asians into our community (August 12) I was greatly disturbed by this abdication of responsibility. It is...
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Sr There seems to be a marked difference in the
The Spectatormeaning of the Word 'Racialism ' to some men. Two I can think of with opposite View s: (I) General Amin's — his outright cruelty to another race flat his own. (2) Our...
National crisis I have watched with appalled fa scination the letters
The Spectatorwhich have appeared in your columns over the P, ast few months purporting to re',ate to the present political, indus`Nal and economic situations in which Britain is deadlocked....
Simple arithmetic
The SpectatorSir: Antony Flew (August 5) has botched his arithmetic. If students spent more than thirty-three hours a week on 'academic work ', then they would have no time to get an...
Homelessness
The SpectatorSir: Frank Field's article on homeless single people rightly stresses the urgency of the need for short term reforms. There is a great danger that the wide-ranging debate both...
Sir: Frank Field is certainly right in drawing attention to
The Spectatorthe rapidly increasing problem of homelessness amongst single young people (August 5). However, his recommendation that what is needed is a reception centre for young people...
Psychotherapy
The SpectatorSir: In his article entitled ' What is Psychotherapy?' (August 3) Jef Smith neither hazards a definition nor attempts to clarify the problems involved in trying to do so....
Arabs and Jews
The Spectator5) repeats the myth that the Arab Sir: Mr David M. Jacobs (August refugees from Palestine and the Oriental Jewish immigrants to Israel constituted "an exchange of population."...
Sir: The real problem in Israel is to allay Jewish
The Spectatorfears of being swamped by Arabs. There is only one way to help the Arab refugees, therefore — by removing the fear. This can be done by: (a) Pressing the Soviet to release all...
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Sir: Your wise leading article (July 22) on the regionalisation
The Spectatorof the Egypt-Israel conflict in consequence of the enforced Russian departure prompts me to suggest that this may be the moment for taking an entirely new look at an intractable...
The decision makers
The SpectatorSir: Dr Dixon expounds one side of the white versus brown bread argument with great clarity (July 15), but there is another side. A growing number of doctors and nutritionists...
Staff of life
The SpectatorSir: Mr Chowdary-Best writes that he is biased in favour of studies about war at sea by men who have reached high rank in the naval service, as aginst those of civilian...
Homo ad hommem
The SpectatorFrom Professor Robin Fax Sir: Mr Liam Hudson's review of The Imperial Animal has just reached me, and while his total inability to grasp the argument of the book will 'he clear...
First-class brain
The SpectatorSir: As a member of the same university, perhaps you will allow me to apologise for Mr Row . ie's ungracious and offensive letter. As you know, Rowse is very proud of his humble...
Sir: As so frequently, what does Auberon Waugh mean? (August
The Spectator19). Is a back colour writer: one who spurs on his gaudy felt-tip words, or is he a somewhat pedestrian un-equestrian aesthetician? Is he a philosopher confined to home...
Translator replies
The SpectatorSir: In the absence of George Feifer I should like to answer some of the arguments raised by Messrs Floyd and Bazarov (Letters, August 19), against our biography of Solzhenitsyn...
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Juliette's Weekly Frolic
The SpectatorWednesday, July 26 marked the turning point in the fortunes of the 1972 classic generation. On that sultry afternoon at Goodwood first Stilvi and Deep Diver, then Sallust and...
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Militancy and the bull market
The SpectatorNicholas Davenport The idle chatter from the market place about the end of the bull market is what you would expect when people have had a fright. As violence rears its ugly...
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Skinflint's City Diary
The SpectatorThe stench of corruption in the public service is not new. A friend has been telling me that after the war he was visiting one of the ministries to get orders for his small...
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Portfolio
The SpectatorShipping around for a share Nephew Wilde One thing I tend to get incredibly irate about is paternalism. Whether it is the boss on a sugar plantation calling his workers " boys...
Account gamble
The SpectatorCarpet backing John Bull As a major group, Carpets International has been largely neglected by the stock market over the last few months. Too much account is given to the mess...
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Feeding the school child
The SpectatorGeorge Bender An adult is, nutritionally as well as Physically, a resilient creature. With the limited amount of information available we have a reasonable set of figures for...
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Society
The SpectatorThe death of consensus Jef Smith or the second time within a few months there have been press photos of social Workers publically protesting against the Policies of their...
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Science
The SpectatorRelevant science Bernard Dixon Scientists rarely lay bets about their colleagues' work. The very idea clashes violently with the spirit of scientific enquiry and the...
Socialities
The SpectatorChoice in stalls custos Those who do not come from 'Old Mother Hubbard' backgrounds must find it difficult to appreciate just how strong is the shame of being poor. But shame...
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In the Caribbean
The SpectatorCarol Wright And so prices continue to sink for packaged holidays to the Caribbean. The old Noel Coward and smart set in Jamaica and dinner jacket dinner scene at Sandy Lane in...