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Sixtyish

Paul Ableman The Clique Ferdinand Mount (Ghetto & Windus £4.95) There are five or six novels racing for the winning post across the uneven turf of this book. Home first, by a......

Ice-cold Intellectualism

Rodney Milnes Der Ring des Nibelungen (Covent Garden) There is without doubt a powerful mind behind the Royal Opera's Ring. Whether it has been put to the service of Wagner is a......