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Committee wrongs, public rights
The SpectatorThe untimely death of Mr Hugh Delargy, chairman of t.he House of Commons Committee of Selection—which itself chooses members of the parliamentary committees charged with the...
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The Week
The SpectatorMr Denis Healey hogged the headlines. He began by warning that living standards were likely to fall by between one and two Per cent. Then he attacked a previously Obscure group,...
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If the crunch comes ...
The SpectatorJohn Grigg Crisis, as well as spring, is in the air. People are asking what will happen if, in spite of another pay deal with the unions, and in spite (or because) of Mr...
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Notebook
The Spectatorscandalous act of self-interest on the part of Members of Parliament is receiving too little attention, too little public criticism, and from all appearances will soon be...
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Another voice
The SpectatorSwallows and Amazons Auberon Waugh Living as I do in the depths of the country I find that my knowledge of life around one comes about entirely from the newspapers. Sometimes...
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The end of education
The SpectatorGeoffrey Wagner New York 'flits constant cliff-hanging fiscal crisis New York has hit hardest, of all its city agencies, at higher education, This is listed as lowest Priority...
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Flat on their faces
The SpectatorJohn Horgan Dublin Historians delving into the recently-released Cabinet files for the 'twenties and 'thirties in what was then the Irish Free State have found fascinating...
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Along the slippery slope
The SpectatorLudovic Kennedy That within the next ten or fifteen years Scotland will once again become a sovereign nation, as she has been for 750 of the last thousand years, I have not the...
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Are journalists often red?
The SpectatorJim Higgins Buxton is a rather sad little town. It retains the features of its former glory, but greyer and slightly frayed around the edges—a place where the pension queue is...
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Precious Stones
The SpectatorMichael Wale The Rolling Stones this month return to Britain to play for the first time for three Years in concert. There is also a new album, Black and Blue, from the group who...
How to confer
The SpectatorJames Hughes-Onslow Last week 500 delegates from all over the world came to London for a five-day conference—to discuss the art of holding conferences. The excuse for this...
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Cup fever
The SpectatorJeffrey Bernard I remember when it became alright to like football. It was when the posh papers began to use writers instead of sports reporters. Cricket was already accepted...
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Consuming interest
The Spectator'Extensive' Elisabeth Dunn The language of estate agents is a miracle of semantics and self-delusion involving, shall we say, a somewhat oblique approach to reality. Not that...
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In the City
The SpectatorThe case for the bulls Nicholas Davenport Writing before the announcement of the new pay deal I must be guarded, but instinct tells me that the bulls who trade in the City...
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Greek broadcasting Sir: ' have been away and my attention has
The SpectatorOnly just been drawn to Professor Devletoglou's letter (10 April.) One must almost admire the Professor's remarkable ability to get everything wrong. He Says that I `helped...
Vietnam Sir: Richard West (1 May) finds it `more than
The Spectatorever difficult to understand why the Americans sent an army of 600,000 men to defend an unpopular right-wing regime against the Communists'. The `domino theory' may be...
No Cuba Sir: Patrick Cosgrave . does Stuart Holland an injustice
The Spectatorin suggesting that he intends to construct a second Cuba in this country. In Cuba, all large-scale industry is stateowned. Stuart has only proposed that at most one quarter of...
Electoral reform
The SpectatorSir: Since Hugo Page's letter (24 April) is the first I have read or heard of 'Conservative Action for Electoral Reform', it seems this group has been inclined to hide its light...
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Tariffs and trade
The SpectatorSir: Is it not more ironic to Ian Bradley that the nervous voices, fearful of reciprocal action, should come from the right ? Why should we be so worried about tariff barriers...
Balls of fire Sir: Brian Inglis welcomes the recent article
The Spectatorin Nature on 'Balls of fire' as you called it (24 April), or spontaneous combustion to use its proper name. But equal credit is due to the Spectator in taking up the subject for...
Sir: Regarding the threat of rabies and, in particular, the
The Spectatorfear that it may be introduced by animals being smuggled into the country by people returning from abroad or visitors, why not use dogs at the customs? If dogs can sniff out...
Naval power and pride Sir: Since I stated in the
The Spectatorpreface to my study of The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery that I expected that my questioning of traditional British assumptions about the influence of sea-power would...
Sir: The best writers about St Paul have ' often
The Spectatorbeen those who were not professiona l theologians. I look forward to seeing Michael Grant's new book, and Len Abse must have aroused the interest of many to whom the most human...
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Books
The SpectatorShowing the flag John Terrame Britain's imperial Century 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion Ronald Hyam (Batsford £10.00) Captain Shakespear: A Portrait H.V.F. W i...
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The great tradition?
The SpectatorPenelope Houston The Rise and Fall of British Documentary Elizabeth Sussex (University of California Press £6.50) Documentary has always been a dour, sobering, power-hungry...
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In good spirit
The SpectatorNick Totton MY Belief Hermann Hesse (Jonathan Cape £6.50) These selected essays and reviews are important for students of Hesse, and interesting to all of us legitimate or...
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Blasting on
The SpectatorBryan Robertson Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age. Volume I: Origins and Development Richard Cork (Gordon Fraser £29) In the last ten years, a handful of...
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Faithful
The SpectatorBenny Green Found, Lost, Found J. B. Priestley (Heinemann E2.90) There is a simplicity of design about J. B. Priestley's new novel which smacks of sheer Cheek . Had he not been...
Food
The SpectatorDuncan Fallowell Light Years James Salter (The Bodley Head E3.50) Light Years is what is known as an impressionist novel. That means the prose is pellucid and the net result...
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Racing books
The SpectatorNo ghosts Jeffrey Bernard Second Start Bobby Beasley (W. H. Allen £4.95) Good Horses Make Good Jockeys Richard Pitman (Pelham Books £3.75) Most jockeys nowadays end up by...
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Time and again
The SpectatorGeoffrey Wheatcroft Racehorses of 1975 (Portway Press £12.50) Timeform Computer Timefigures of 1975 (Portway Press £5.00) Ruff's Guide to the Turf (Mirror Group Books £7.00)...
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Arts
The SpectatorFending off Charley's Aunt John Spurling The twenty years since the so-called Theatre Revolution of 1956 have been the most fertile period in the whole history of the British...
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Art
The SpectatorSteel pastries John McEwen Before he turned to steel in 1960 Caro was a modeller, that most intuitive of sculptural t echniques, a constant search through addition and...
Music
The SpectatorPersian mode John Bridcut Sending Magna Carta to remind the States that we had our Watergate seven centuries ago is in its way just as propagandist as the World of Islam...
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Theatre
The SpectatorDrag race Kenneth Hurren Cycle Sluts (Broadway, Kilburn) La Grande Eugene (Round House) The Zykovs by Maxim Gorky; Royal Shakespeare Company (Aldwych) Miss Julie by August...
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Cinema
The SpectatorSore throat Ian Cameron L ike most other American films about Politics, All the President's Men (at many c inemas, `AA' Certificate) is not. really a Political film. It is...
Television
The SpectatorMusical chairs Jeffrey Bernard I think perhaps the camera should remain almost static when they televise concerts. It's not exactly the most fascinating thing in the world to...