The company he keeps
C.H. Sisson, 6 August 1981
Experiences of an Optimist
by John Redcliffe-Maud.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £10.95, July 1981,0 241 10569 2 Show More
by John Redcliffe-Maud.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £10.95, July 1981,
“... wish to go and are thought capable of staying the course.’ Maud’s pupils in politics included Stephen Spender – who does not seem to have learnt much politics anyway – and if it is not breath-taking, it does at least cause one to reflect on the insularity of the pre-war Oxford school of politics that it was only in 1938 that he ‘spotted’ the ... ”