22 APRIL 1966, page 13

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Down Among the Dead Men By HILARY SPURLING O F all human plants,' said Proust, 'habit requires the least fostering, and is the first to appear on the seeming desolation of the......

Television

The Beady Eye A ATER watching Sir Kenneth Clark talking on Courbet (ATV—Monday, 11.10 p.m.), I am confirmed in my suspicion that I am basically a sucker for the electronic......

Music

Braving the Deluge W ITHIN a matter of eight weeks, from mid- April to early June, London will have heard seven of Mahler's ten symphonies, Nos. 1, 6 and 10 being the odd men......