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Friends of Biafra
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From bad to verse
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Cause for unease
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Back to the power-house
The SpectatorI Back to the power-house Sir: In his article (25 October) entitled 'Back to the power-house' Mr Auberon Waugh makes One Point about the Nigerian war which needs correction. He...
Black scorpion
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Letter
The SpectatorSir: In his first article (18 October) on the rela- tions of universities with their students, Mr MacGregor warned that we might find his conclusions surprising (1 November). I...
MacGregor on students
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Letter
The SpectatorSir: I should like to raise one or two points in connection with Ian MacGregor's article 'Save our universities! (1 November). He states: it is no part of the university's...
Letter
The SpectatorSir: My congratulations to ILn NMicGregor (18 and 25 October, 1 November). Good sense at last! The rationale of a students strike bears comparison with that of the action of a...
Enter the new fascists
The SpectatorEnter the new fascists | Sir: In your issue of 25 Qctober an other;:>e admirable frarft-page article sought to c4uLAte me with people fighting the police in London streets for...
Who gets the chair?
The SpectatorWho gets the chair? Sir: Your correspondent (Letters, I Nou-,em ber), discussing the method. of the election of the Professor of Poet\ writes: 'Such methods have, of course,...
Letter
The SpectatorSir: To describe the rpkellious students :h, "h i new fascists (25 Octrher) is superficiallU: . lI vincing as long as you stick to the idea> II share with the old...
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Alligators All Around and One Was Johnny
The SpectatorAlligators All Around and One Was Johnny Call of the wild JILL FREUD Maurice Sendak (Collins 8s 6d each) Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Presert Maurice Sendak (Bodley Head 18s)...
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Look Back in Anger
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The greatest since the gothic
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So Nixon's the (lesser) One
The SpectatorS o N i x o n' s t he (l s s e O n ie I ,:' : ; . 1* Saving' lost the r4, t to Wi* HOuse 4I9.6 ;p.'.e,'r Bi'~t 4! t:Ab V'':t. e. Ad -,.MrNion: Izas at:.int won it. wit leess 44...
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Loud loving
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Strip guide
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Letter
The SpectatorSir: In 'Table talk' (18 October) Sir DM Brogan says he has not yet received a satin factory explanation of why the Revd. Paisle wears a Roman collar-and by a Roman collar I...
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The Spectator'Ma hert is gey sair for puir 'Lita Docheilv. I I Her ruby bluid-red gin the snaw o' her brcit. But the chaps o' the hizzies o Bishop o' C laher See, Mak us spring to her aid;...
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The SpectatorSir: Re 'Home Rule for Yorkshire? (18 Octo- ber), I dont suppose London is entirely populated by homosexual Jewish negroes any more than all Yorkshiremen are square and...
Letter
The SpectatorSir: The tone of your leader (25 October) on Sunday's demonstration can only be regretted. It was once a common failing of the left to usC the term fascist indiscriminatel, one...
Table talk
The Spectator.Table talk Siu 'or the information of Professor Brogan (1 8 October), the results of the most recent imperial parliamentary election held in Northern Ireland, at which every...
Cheap words
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Letter
The SpectatorSir: As I have long been reproaching Ameri. can scholars with their ignorance of that important political institution, the English sy-stem of courtesy titles, I must express my...
Letter
The SpectatorSir: I am appalled at Mr Grundy's article pub || lished in last week's issue of the SPECT ATO containing as it did a complete distortion of the facts and imputations of a...
Home rule for Yorkshire?
The SpectatorHome rule for Yorkshire? Sir: It is as well that Dr John Rowan Wilson went south (18 October). He is no Yorkshireman. He knows the mills and the inevitable cloth caps and...
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The Victorian Scene: 1837-1901
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Landscape
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Ages seven to ten
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Vietnam: the prospect now
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The President's Analyst
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The Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France
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Meet my friends
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A hundred years ago
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The Duccio deal
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Human error
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The gerontizophobes
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The Golliwogg at the Seaside and The Golliwogg's Auto-Go-Cart
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English Fairy Tales
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What's in a squeeze?
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Market report
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Down the mine
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The Adventure of Hadrian Hedgehog
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On the eve
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Mexicana
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Near-peers and essential experts
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Memory and the historian
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SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
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