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A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
The Spectator' ET us have honest decisions, honestly L reached,' Harold Wilson told the pre-con- ference demonstratidn at Scarborough. 'and let us base our unity on accepting them.'...
— Portrait of the Week— AT EASTBOURNE, the Liberal Assembly declared
The SpectatorItself firmly against unilateral nuclear disarma- ment. At Scarborough, the Labour Party Con- ference declared itself shakily for it. MR. KHRUSHCHEV ssto that Mr. HammarskjOld...
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Anatomy of Partnership
The SpectatorA we went to press last week an announce- ment was made—so casually that it attracted little notice—that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had agreed to a proposal that...
The Arbitration Man
The SpectatorrrliE Prime Minister's speech to the United I Nations Assembly has been praised, and deservedly, on two counts. It was a reasonable speech—its general theme unexceptionable,...
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Treason and Truth
The SpectatorFrom DARSIE GILLIE PARtS I T is normal in time of civil war to punish with a heavy sentence those who encourage deser- tion and give help to the armed enemy of the State. To...
The Perfect Squelch
The SpectatorFrom RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK I F the British have any favours to ask of Americans, they had better speak up right now. The Treasury is Mr: Macmillan's if he wishes to d...
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A Trip to Scarborough
The SpectatorAfter the Bombardment By BERNARD LEVIN EvEN in such a Giitterdain- ',wrung as we have witnessed this week there have been inter- vals of comic relief amid the oceans of high...
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West Side Story
The SpectatorBy DESMOND DONNELLY, MP Get cool boy! Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool boy! Don't get hot, 'Cause man, you got some high times ahead, Take it slow and, Daddy-of You...
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War in the 197os ?
The SpectatorBy CHRISTO T PHER HOLLIS Hr. argument about the dangers of war— concerning itself, as it does, with traditional pacifist theses, or with the state of things as it is at the...
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The Monument
The SpectatorBy SIMON RAVEN t i , /mil , one summer I had to take my platoon of anti-tank gunners to fire a week's course ba the ranges at Hohne, some fi fty miles beyond t over. We...
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BY LORD ADRIAN BY LORD ADRIAN
The SpectatorLord Adrian, OM, FRS., who is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, will lecture on the human internal communication system and the complex relationship between brain and body....
bright idea of making the balcony scene clumsy and awkward,
The Spectatorbut it turned the interchange of Shakespeare's perhaps rather too ingcniouslY interwoven love sonnets into long-winded and unconvincing prattle. John Stride and Judy Dench here...
to the cinema .' young,' one of them in t his country
The Spectatorwrites, 'take odd, isolated, almost id' ° „ syncratic lines like: preferring later Hitchau)
Personal Quirks
The SpectatorBy ISABEL The Time Machine. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) —High Time. (Carl- ton.) THE autumn number of Sight and •Sound is a summer-up and stock- taker in such a wide sense that it...
. Mr. Ze ffi relli designed the sets, too—some of which, like
The SpectatorJuliet's airy bedroom and the pil- lared lamp-lit tomb, arc delicate works of art, while others, like the street background or the balcony, seem more like badly plastered works...
QUIGLY
The Spectatorgeneration of critical opinion, mostly under' graduates made vocal in Oxford Opinion (twelv e enormous years after Sequence), who care for only the visual image—and an...
THE THIRD OF THE
The SpectatorBRITISH ASSOCIATION GRANADA LECTURES The third lecture in the 196o series of annual Lectures on the theme of `Communication in the Modern World' organised by the British...
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the ITA vetoed a candid-camera pro g ramme on lines amply sanctified
The Spectatorby American shorts and BBC radio. Now, low and behold (I nearly wrote Lew and behold—we die with our puns clean) the resistible personality of Bob Monkhouse is attuned each...
Old and s q uare, it makes a committed critic feel; rather,
The Spectatormaybe, as the Thirties intellectuals Must have felt when they suddenly found them- selves talkin g to g rown-up people who didn't care about Spain : who'd missed it. 'The belief...
r _ ARO V V With the desi g nin g , and the des-
The Spectatorcription, of haute couture, it is q uite another matter—thou g h just as odd. Its g reat desi g ners are men (have they always been, I wonder? Saul clothed the dau g hters of...
FORSTER
The Spectatorto Brian Rix, of the Whitehall Theatre farces, to act as spotter-producer-actor, and ITV's back- pedal on its presti g e proposal to put out Old Vic productions on STV. 'Lew has...
polygamy
The SpectatorO NE OF THE odd thin g s about hi g h fashion—and g oodness knows it has plenty—is that attitudes to it do not cleave alon g lines of sex. Almost as many women as men think it...
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SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY ENGINEERING
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leaves to others to discover when they began to be
The Spectatorso. The antiquary shows you how things were, and leaves their present existence to be examined by others. Hence the former is more useful, the latter' more curious. The former...
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To the East
The SpectatorA Phoenix NIGEL CAMERON His new travels from Kashmir to Fiji, 'brilliantly drawn by a sensitive observer' JOSEPH TAGGART, Star. Illus. 30s. * THE S MAN Mark Caine's...
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Whether Mr. Connell is right in feeling so indignant is
The Spectatoranother matter. Lord Russell and Mr. Scott feel the Government to be morally as well as politically and strategically wrong and the danger of its courses to be desperate....
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