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Opportunity in Athens
The SpectatorW hen she goes to Athens next week, Mrs Thatcher will need to make use of arts very different from those which she displayed in Delhi. At the Commonwealth prime ministers'...
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Political commentary
The SpectatorLabour and the law Charles Moore I n industrial disputes, trade unions start with a great psychological advantage they know what they want. As long as their members agree with...
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Notebook
The Spectator4 W on't she be amused,' says Prince Albert in the poster advertising the exhibition Albert, His Life and Work at the Royal College of Art. Above are printed the words 'Victoria...
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Another voice
The SpectatorThoughts on the Ukraine Auberon Waugh M y unavoidable absence in New York last week kept me from the Fortieth Anniversary meeting of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations in...
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Dreamtime in the Bush
The SpectatorRobert Haupt Melbourne A yers Rock sits in the belly of the Australian continent like a navel jewel. It is the world's largest inselberg ('island mountain) and events that...
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Greek omens
The SpectatorC. M. Woodhouse Athens W hen the Greek military dictator- ship collapsed in July 1974, Constan- tine Karamanlis returned from exile to face two immense tasks, one at home and...
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Miami ghettoes
The SpectatorRichard West San Salvador O ne of the hazards of Central American travel for those who go on the cheap, is having to spend a night at Miami on the way. This city gets ever more...
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Arafat's political victory
The SpectatorCharles Glass Damascus 'They relate in our country They relate with sadness How my comrade who went away Came back in a shroud.' [From And he Returned in a Shroud (Someone,...
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Queen and Commonwealth
The SpectatorPeregrine Worsthorne efore the Queen agrees to preside over .1-1P some domestic charity exhaustive in- quiries are made as to the respectability of all those concerned with the...
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Guilty men
The SpectatorDavid Carlton M r Ian Mikardo and Mr Stan Newens have recently made common cause with Sir Oswald Mosley's widow in seeking the opening of the so-called 'Mosley Papers' at the...
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Picketing special
The SpectatorPeter Paterson R eturning by train from Manchester to London a couple of weeks ago, I fell in. with a small crowd of National Graphical Association printers going home after a...
One hundred years ago
The SpectatorThe Electra of Sophocles, was per- formed last week at Girton by the Students of the College, with a success which certainly justified the attempt. The play was selected as...
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The press
The SpectatorThe issue is monopoly Paul Johnson T here are a number of separate but related issues in the National Graphical Association dispute which hit Fleet Street last weekend. The...
Game for a Daimler
The SpectatorThis week's question, set by Richard Ingrams, is to be found on page 41.
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In the City
The SpectatorThe road from Rio Jock Bruce-Gardyne I was bidden to lunch last week with one of our leading engineering firms. Others present included a senior mer- chant banker, and an...
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Letters
The SpectatorOxbridge's blunt instrument Sir: Writing from his 'official address' — to quote Paul Johnson — John Casey ('Attacking scholarship', 19 November) might have given us the benefit...
Poets amalgamated
The SpectatorSir: P..1 • Kavanagh's 'Postscript' of 19 November asked, 'why do people come to poetry readings? What do they want of us?' Some of those committed to purifying and...
Bad Irish joke
The SpectatorSir: No Irishmen in Shakespeare's plays? Richard West ('Sad Irish joke', 12 November) seems to have forgotten the Irish attendant who accompanies Hamlet (Act III, Scene iii)...
Scattering the proud
The SpectatorSir: 'The Magnificat Group' (Letters, 26 November) indeed. 'Do you mind the dain- ty coyness of it?' as Myles na Gopaleen ask- ed in another context. They make no real answer to...
Sir: John Casey, Fellow of Gonville and Caius, (`Attacking scholarship,'
The Spectator19 November) argues as follows. Oxford is changing its admission procedure, schools able to offer seven terms preparation for scholarship examination will suffer, academic...
A single (early) life
The SpectatorSir: May I be allowed to comment briefly on two points in Mr Mark Amory's kind review (19 November) of my Married to a Single Life? First: The book closes when 1 was still in...
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Centrepiece
The SpectatorMaking trouble Colin Welch B efore trying further to help the Met- ropolitan Police with their inquiry, may I make it clear that I am not against any and every sort of inquiry...
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Christmas Books I
The SpectatorExotic Kedgeree Shiva Naipaul Real Wicked Guy: A View of Black Britain Roy Kerridge (Blackwell £9.95) T remember — this was some 20 years ago I— sitting out on the wind-swept...
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Martial law, anti-law
The SpectatorJohn Jolliffe The Canary, and Other Tales of Martial Law Marek Nowakowski (Harvill Press £7.95) The West's general attitude to Poland tends to consist of intermittent,...
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Early genius
The SpectatorAnthony Storr The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: Cambridge Essays 1888-99 Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Andrew Brink, Nicholas Griffin, Richard A. Rempel, John...
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Just for tinies
The SpectatorPatrick Skene Catling T he Christmasiest of the new Christmas books for youn g children, A Happy Christmas, written and illustrated by Harold Jones, (Deutsch £3.95) would make...
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Viva Scotia!
The SpectatorRaymond Carr From the Falklands to Patagonia: The Story of a Pioneer Family Michael James Mainwaring (Allison & Busby £12.95) ome people have all the luck. A profes- sional...
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Double vision
The SpectatorTimothy Garton Ash H ow many travel writers could stand the test of having another writer share their journey, step for step, incident for in- cident, and then sit down,...
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Gothic friends
The SpectatorIsabel Colegate The Strawberry Hill Set: Horace Walpole and His Circle Brian Fothergill (Faber & Faber £12.95) A ny mind's eye view of the latter two- thirds of the 18th...
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Mystic fumes
The SpectatorHarriet Waugh Don Bueno Zulfikar Ghose (Hutchinson £8.95) Z ulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani novelist who now lives in America. His writing is sometimes clumsy and uneasy, almost...
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Political Plum
The SpectatorRichard West The World of Uncle Fred P.G. Wodehouse (Hutchinson £9.95) W hen the Book Marketing Council recently published a list of the dozen best novels since the war, it...
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Arts
The SpectatorGlint and vigour John McEwen he artistic poles — and financial props — of the Academy's year have for long been the Summer Exhibition and the Winter Exhibition, the winter one...
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Theatre
The SpectatorEnds and means Giles Gordon Master Harold ... And The Boys (National: Cot tesloe) Poppy (Adelphi) The Sleeping Prince (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) m aster Harold ... And The...
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Television
The SpectatorGratified Richard Ingrams A s a journalist my feelings about a newspaper strike are mixed. I can't help a sense of outrage over a group of print workers bringing• the whole...
Cinema
The SpectatorWinding up . Peter Ackroyd Rear Window ('PG', selected cinemas) A lfred Hitchcock's 'classic' (any film made more than 20 years ago tends to be called this) was released in...
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High life
The SpectatorOver and out Taki Cairo A lthough Arab Islamic history began in the Arabian Peninsula — for that was Islam's birthplace and site of its initial simplicity and triumph — it...
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Postscript
The SpectatorFrights P.J. Kavanagh I used to avoid the radio because I thou g ht it stopped me working, but now, whether because I have to g et up early to take people to school, or...
Low life
The SpectatorPitiful Jeffrey Bernard T he fact that life is a complete and utter bastard struck me so overwhelm- in g ly a few minutes a g o that I had to g et out of bed and make some...
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No. 1295: The winners
The SpectatorJaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for typical comment by a well-known jour- nalist on the banning by a future govern- ment of the private motor-car, and/or the...
Competi t ion
The SpectatorNo. 1298: Fin de siècle Set by Jaspistos: A sonnet, please, in the manner of a tired poet of the end of the last century, with the following rhyming words: wears, row, glow,...
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Chess
The SpectatorHall of fame Raymond Keene O ne aspect of the Candidates' matches which has so far eluded comment is the layout in the Hamilton Banqueting Hall of the Great Eastern Hotel....
Solution to 633: Perfect
The SpectatorThe unclued lights are wel -known sets of three — called the perfect number by Pythagoras. (32A: Trollope. 21D: Sheridan.) Winner: R.R. Macleod, 24 Macken- zie Place,...
Crossword 636
The SpectatorA prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 19 December. Entries to: Crossword 636, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL. 1...
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Portrait of the week
The SpectatorT he 22-week-old dispute between the National Graphical Association and the management of the Messenger group of newspapers in Stockport spread to Fleet Street. In response to...
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Game for a Daimler
The Spectatorwith Dame Edna Everage Hello Possums! I rather adore the crooked little face on this increasingly 'visible' media person. I knew him first many moons ago when he got the first...
Prizes
The SpectatorThe first prize is a magnificent 1934 Daimler Saloon, which is illustrated above. It is fully licensed and in excellent condition having had only two owners. The car is valued...
How to take part
The Spectator1. Dame Edna Everage will introduce one question by a different person in each iAsue of The Spectator from now until the 10 December issue. 2. Do not send in your replies each...
Back Numbers If you missed the previous weeks' issues, it
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