Contents 3
1.What Use Is Philosophy?—J.B.S.Haldane 3
2.How to Grow Old—Bertrand Russell 11
3.My Visit to Tours—Winston Churchill 18
4.At the Tailors—J.B.Priestley 32
5.As I See It—Bernard Shaw 43
6.The Art of Listening—Martin Armstrong 53
7.Exploring the Inner Man—Jonathan Miller 66
8.Nine Years for A and B—Christopher Ricks 79
9.Politics and the English Language—George Orwell 89
10.Keynesism in the United States—John Ken-neth Galbraith 108
11.Fifth Avenue,Uptown—James Baldwin 122
12.An Englishman Discovers India—A.L.Morton 141