Technology and Culture · 1978 · 61 citations · 0 references
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The correspondence columns of The Times have for many decades been the barometer of public opinion, the sounding board for polemics, the tocsin for warnings and protests, the disseminator of useful, and sometimes useless, information, the rallying point for worthy, worthless and lost causes, a method of announcing records, of denouncing the short-comings of others, and of stimulating amusing banter, together with other laudable functions.This collection contains some 250 letters mainly from the eminent and the topics covered are as various as the correspondents.