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WINTER THAW
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Portrait of the Week
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Civil Rights and Senate Rules
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[WHICH REMINDS ME.]
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[THE MAINTENANCE ORDERS ACT and the First...]
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[E. M. FORSTER is now eighty and in Cambridge...]
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[I DO NOT LIKE to criticise the new Mental Health...]
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[I WAS GLAD to see the immediate reaction, in the...]
The SpectatorI WAS (GiL A O SCC IIIh imimieCdiatC reaction, in the corresponldence column1s of 0I/T/ Tlime's and elsewhere, to the ridiculous defence pUt out by London Transport in the case...
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'The Pit That Has To Die'
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The Puerto Ricans. By Christopher Rand.
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The American Henry James. By Quentin Anderson.
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The World of Spiders. By W. S. Bristowe.
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Spanish Justice
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[SIR,-I should be very grateful if Pharos would be...]
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[SIR,-I confess to some headshaking over the sec-...]
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[SIR,-In these arguments on 'natural' and 'unnatural'...]
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The Cardinal de Bernis. By Sir Marcus Cheke.
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Small-Town Politics. By A. H. Birch.
The SpectatorT'bloody Gas-bracket Small-Town Politics. By A. H. Birch. (O.U.P., 25s.) 1 ill public-opinion polls, the political commentators, the leader-writers, the Man in the Saloon Bar...
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YORK MINSTER
The SpectatorYORK MINSITER SIR,---AS it not time that, as in France, the nation took some responsibility for the conservation of our architectural heritage? Why does not this 'conservaJive'...
DERRIERE-GARDE
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THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND DIVORCE
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THE LONGEST WORD
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[SIR,-It is strange that the question to which the...]
The SpectatorS1m, -Il is strange that the queSt0ion to Whichl tile I Fcilows of St. Johnls providC wrvonIg answers should be this Univcisity qIUCstion. (a) (iGlasgow Iiats noa, aind has...
COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS
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SCIENCE AND THE ARTS
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SPANNING THE GREAT DIVIDE
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[SIR,-I should like to congratulate the Six Fellows of...]
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The Harrap Anthology of French Poetry. Edited by Joseph Chiari. The Penguin Book of French Verse. 2. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Introduced and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton.
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The Pistol. By James Jones. Daybreak. By Suzy Morel. The Hit. By Julian Mayfield. Sound of the Sea. By Leo Walmsley. The Unspeakable Skipton. By Pamela Hansford Johnson.
The SpectatorOn From Eternity The Pistol. By James Jones. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) Daybreak. By SuLzy Morel. (Harvill, l3s. 6d.) The Hit. By Jllian Mayfield. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.)...
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Aristotle and the American Indians. By Lewis Hanke.
The SpectatorThe Uses of Philosophy Aristotle amnd the Americau Indians. By Lewis Hanke. (Hollis atnd (airtcr. I 8s.) TmiimL. have long been two views of Span'lish policy towards the...
Turgenev's Literary Reminiscences. With an essay by Edmund Wilson. Translated with an introduction by David Magarshack.
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Blank-Verse Beasts
The SpectatorBlank-Verse Beasts By W. 'Al. ROIBSON WHAT would be the standing of Elizabethan (and Jacobean) drama if Shakespeare had never lived'? (And in that case we should also have to...
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INVESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorINVESTMENT NOTES 1By CUSTOS T ur week in T'hrogniorton Street began with a selling wave in euIlitiCs. Most plrocssionIal investors are now expectihg at best a pause and at...
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COMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorCOM1PANY NOTES ATIsE AND LYVIE have incrcased their trading prolit for the year ended Scptember 30, 1958, from £5.96 million to £6.2 million, which is probably due to more...
