Bernard Levin

She was a lifelong friend of Bernard Levin , a well-known journalist whom she met on her first day working for Truth. Joost de Blank (who later became a bishop and eventually Archbishop of...

Bernard Levin called the play, in a revival of 1978, unendurable. In the ODNB a quarter-century later, Michael Billington called it a rich climax to Pinter's naturalistic writing for the theatre.

Nevertheless, reviews in the daily and Sunday papers were bad (including those of Bernard Levin and, more surprisingly, Michael Billington ).Benedict Nightingale in the New Statesman provided an appreciative notice and called...

Reviewers, including Elaine Feinstein and Penelope Fitzgerald , were most of them low-key, though Bernard Levin greeted it with a broadside against its village setting, which, he said, reinforced his conviction that the best...

Levin responded not with a review but by reproducing one of the book's ancient and exquisite illustrations in his Times column.

In a letter to The Times in December 1976 (answering a piece in which Bernard Levin , forty-five years after the appearance of her indexed novel, said he had never seen a novel with an...

This work was roughly handled, with insult and derision, by Bernard Levin in The Times.

She was provoked to this by Bernard Levin 's writing in his essay Malediction Against Dogs that pekinese were not dogs but cats. RG 's title comes from the legendary origins of the first pekinese...