Madam, - Your neo-conservative guest correspondent Constantin Gurdgiev invites us to ponder important issues during the silly season. He will no doubt return in mid-October to his duties as a research associate at the generously State-financed TCD, happy in the knowledge that he has led the attack on the policy of State financing of research in areas which, I humbly suggest, make a far greater contribution to employment than his own dismal science of economics.
This very contradiction is in itself an admirable contribution to the silly season. - Yours, etc.,
TOM POWER , Dunmore Road, Waterford.