11 MAY 1991, page 37
A Word To The Whys
Bryan Appleyard THEORIES OF EVERYTHING: THE QUEST FOR ULTIMATE EXPLANATION by John D. Barrow OUP, f14.95, pp.234 T he strange and apparently unstoppable success of Stephen......
Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?
Anthony Powell PEOPLE OF TODAY edited by Patricia Ellis, Juliet Hine and David Williamson Debrett, f90, pp.2125 T his volume is introduced with a mis- cellany of promotional......
The Intruders
When people whom we should not know but do know, come through the wall and give advice which we did not ask them for, and when the room contracts into a cubicle then playfully......