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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorT he number of governments forbidding their countries' athletes from competing in the Commonwealth Games rose to 30, including those of India, Zambia, Zim- babwe, Guyana and the...
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HEATH'S U-TURN
The SpectatorMR EDWARD Heath told the House of Commons last week, `If one comes finally to having to go for full sanctions I do not see how they could possibly be enforced without a...
NEXT HUSSEIN
The SpectatorTHE Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres's surprise summit meeting with King Hassan II of Morocco should not be compared too closely to Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem in 1977....
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The SpectatorTHE QUEEN'S ALIEN CIRCLE L ast week, Mrs Thatcher and her Gov- ernment were in a very difficult position. Her opposition to economic sanctions against South Africa had isolated...
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POLITICS
The SpectatorThatcherites who would prefer to be without Thatcher BRUCE ANDERSON L ast October, who could have pre- dicted that by this summer recess the main political issues would have...
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DIARY
The Spectatorr Terence Wheldon, the solicitor dealing with Philip Larkin's estate, says that his diaries were burnt shortly after his death but that he will proceed 'at a leisurely pace...
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ANOTHER VOICE
The SpectatorBeginning to waver towards the idea of indolence AUBERON WAUGH atching The Cocktail Party on Thursday night at the Theatre Royal, in Bath — it moves to the West End this week...
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THE QUEEN'S VERY OWN EMPIRE
The SpectatorThe Queen seems to be ready to confront Mrs Thatcher. Charles Moore examines the roots of the monarch's obsession with her Headship of the Commonwealth ON HER 21st birthday in...
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NOT BLACK AND WHITE
The SpectatorStephen Robinson returns to a Britain which over-simplifies South Africa SINCE my return from South Africa three weeks ago many people have asked me if South Africa is really...
One hundred years ago
The SpectatorSir, — You often give us pleasant anecdotes of our four-footed friends. You may think the following worthy of record. I have a little dog, a not particularly well-bred fox...
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THE FILIPINO SUGAR DADDY
The SpectatorRichard West discovers an English pioneer in the Philippines, and finds the Irish critical of him Iloilo, Philippines ON REACHING Panay Island from Neg- ros, over the Guimaras...
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NEW ORTHODOXIES: II
The SpectatorTHE MARQUIS AND THE PLOUGHMAN Shirley Robin Letwin asks what class is, and finds it generally misunderstood JUST when the demon class began to ravage the land is difficult to...
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THE FANS FIGHT DIRTY
The SpectatorJames Naylor watches the violence outside the ring at the Frank Bruno fight FOR far too long, those who administer the popular British sports have tried to blame a mysterious...
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THE SUCCESS OF SMELLY ELLY
The SpectatorJames Innes on the man who wins by-elections for the Liberals by unorthodox methods ANDREW Ellis is 34 years old, stands 6' 4" and is Secretary General of the Liberal Party....
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IAIN HAMILTON
The SpectatorBrian Inglis remembers a former editor of the Spectator, who died last week THE Manchester Guardian's London office in the early 1950s was a nest of talented young...
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SANCTIONS SATIETY
The SpectatorThe media: Paul Johnson complains about the bullying of television viewers over South Africa ONE of the consequences of the lack of competition in our duopoly television sys-...
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CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorPromises, promises: or, the importance of being honest CHRI S T 0 PHER FILDES f Ernest Saunders is worth his weight in gold, he will come out on the bullion scales at about...
Maxwell's house
The SpectatorROBERT Maxwell buys shares in the way other people take pot shots at clay pigeons: whirr, bang, tinkle. He will have enjoyed the marksmanship that brought down five per cent of...
Lex per incunam
The SpectatorLATEST excuse for the stock market shake-out (as if it needed excusing) is dissent between the Government and the Sovereign — the first time this has knocked shares, says a...
Lord of High Ground
The SpectatorI CANNOT see why Ralph Harris should want a break, just because he has been toiling away in his shirt-sleeves and plum- coloured waistcoat for 30 years, changing the way we all...
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THE ECONOMY
The SpectatorUncle Sam wants to pass the parcel JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE C W e need some help.' That was the message, directed primarily to Bonn, from US Treasury Secretary James Baker last...
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J. M. Synge's illness
The SpectatorSir: J. M. Synge had Hodgkin's disease for several years, culminating in an inoperable stomach tumour which led to his death at the age of 37 in 1909. He never suffered from...
Another twerp
The SpectatorSir: Since I associate myself, wholeheartedly, with the views expressed by Mr Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 12 July) I, too, by the definition expressed by Judith Askham...
LETTERS How Whitehall leaks
The SpectatorSir: I have not yet seen the Commons Defence Select Committee's report on the Mayhew letter leak, but I believe that the Brittan-Bowe-Ingham exercise illustrates the supreme...
In last week's issue, the address to which Catherine Peters
The Spectatorinvited material on Wilkie Collins to be sent should have read 45 Chalfont Road, Oxford.
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe causes of Suez J. Enoch Powell FROM THREE WORLDS by William Clark Sidgwick & Jackson, f13.95 A fter 30 years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that...
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Failing to understand women
The SpectatorAnita Brookner THE WOMEN OF GUINEA LANE by Gabriel Fielding Hutchinson, £9.95 abriel Fielding made his debut as a novelist in the 1950s and immediately impressed as a...
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The dark side of the dragon
The SpectatorColin Thubron LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng Grafton, f12.95 0 ne of the most surprising aspects of China's Cultural Revolution is that so little memorable...
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Wandering like a maggot in cheese
The SpectatorMary Clive `IN SOCIETY': THE BRIDESHEAD YEARS by Nicholas Courtney Michael Joseph, £14.95 I t all all depends on what you mean by `society' and what you mean by 'in'. Was...
Still some unachieved goals
The SpectatorRaymond Carr ARGENTINA 1516-1982: FROM SPANISH COLONIZATION TO THE FALKLANDS WAR by David Rock I. B. Tauris, £24.50 A STATE OF FEAR by Andrew Graham-Yooll Eland, £9.95 hat...
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Justifier of homosexuals
The SpectatorAnthony Blond MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD: A PIONEER IN SEXOLOGY by Charlotte Wolff Quartet, £25 The married man who seduces the governess of his children remains free, as free as the...
Gradual recognition of genius
The SpectatorAnthony Storr ROSSINI by Richard Osborne Dent, £14.95 S chopenhauer, who thought that music was the most serious and profoundly signi- ficant of all the arts, considered that...
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A silly, impulsive eagle
The SpectatorLaurence Lerner ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE by William Empson Cambridge, £25, £7.95 E mpson was a professor, but he had all the qualities that academics are often accused of lacking:...
A selection of recent paperbacks
The SpectatorFiction The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr, Penguin, £1.95 A Day in Summer by J. L. Can, Hogarth Press, £3.95 Jacques and His Master by Milan Kundera, Faber, £3.95...
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ARTS
The SpectatorThe Proms Big and beautiful Peter Phillips 0 n the day that Bill Athey scored 142 not out for England, and I, after much tribulation, finally passed my General Flying Test,...
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Cinema
The SpectatorHannah and Her Sisters (`15', Odeon Leicester Square) The joke wears thin Peter Ackroyd W oody Allen has now been cano- nised, at least by the cinematic establish- ment; but...
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Theatre
The SpectatorDybbuk (Almeida) Ghost story Christopher Edwards H ere is an opportunity to see Bruce Myers's brilliant adaptation of Anski's Yiddish classic, The Dybbuk. The original work,...
Art education
The SpectatorEducating the arty Giles Auty T here is probably no practice on earth so attractive to foolish theory and propo- sals as art education. During the few years when I taught,...
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Radio
The SpectatorImpolite fiction Noel Malcolm D esert Island Discs showed a good sense of timing when it chose to interview Sir Geoffrey Howe last week. For once, there were no questions...
SPECIATOR
The Spectatoris expanding its advertisement sales department. It is looking for: 1. Someone with previous experience of selling direct to clients and advertising agencies, capable of...
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Gardens
The SpectatorAnd so to bed Ursula Buchan B edding-out began as the exercise and diplay of economic muscle. A large gar- den full of half-hardy annuals said a great deal about its owner: he...
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SIX SEASIDE LITHOGRAPHS:
The SpectatorThis is the first of a summer series of lithographs of the Kent and Sussex seaside by Alan Powers, entitled Views of the South Coast. The series has been commissioned by the...
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Television
The SpectatorBails of plasticine Alexander Chancellor I t is both frustrating, and in a way a relief, that my deadline for this column precedes the eve-of-wedding television interview with...
High life
The SpectatorFor better, for worse Taki I am not one for big weddings. The idea of signing away one's liberty in front of all those people seems almost obscene. Girls, however, cannot do...
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Home life
The SpectatorAfter the party Alice Thomas Ellis We had what I hope I may describe as a most enjoyable luncheon party yesterday. I rose at dawn to cook the potatoes and keep an eye on the...
Low life
The SpectatorTravellers' tales Jeffrey Bernard after all. I came home last week, though, to find I have been served with a bankrupt- cy order. You win some, you lose some. way , the...
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Summer stock
The Spectator,,,Ortt,J0L .0%6JY ..ortfk., rot I HAVE been going to weddings every week this month, all those children of what seems yesterday have turned into ravishing lasses and strapping...
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CHESS
The SpectatorPreparations Raymond Keene ary Kasparov has two great mentors — Alekhine and Botvinnik. Alekhine's brilliant games inspired him, but Kasparov has experienced the exceptional...
COMPETITION
The SpectatorTelecrostic Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1430 you were asked to invent a telegram from a well-known Person (alive or dead) to a contemporary, together with the reply, the...
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CROSSWORD
The SpectatorA first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first...
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No. 1433: Bouts times
The SpectatorAn old favourite returns. A poem, please, in which the rhyme-words are as follows and in this order: going, good, showing, should, lazy, crazy, tiff, if, unclenching, say,...