ART OF CONVERSATION.
“From a purely practical point of view I think that the art of conversation is extremely useful. It helps us to practise the great art eff living, in
particular circumstances, better than we do. We seem to be singularly
bungling and inefficient in the art; we do not even try to learn it. Every day we see deplorable failures, and failures of the most elementry kind. I know a family where five persons sit
togeather in a drawing-room or din-
ing-room—interested and worthy perscins every one of them, with much to communicate; yet they communicate nothing to one another; they live in isolation; each fires off his remarks —‘his view of the world—into the air; and the fact that nothing is shared means that there is no common atmosphere; no harmony has been ever established; the net results in not merely loss, but positive discomfort, positive distress. A little frank and humorous handling, in earlier days, of the principles of the thing might, it seems to me, have been wise, might have led to more successful facings of problems far from the triv.al—a problem, in the literal sense, of every day.”—C. Roden Buxton, in the “Socialist Review.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 285, 24 April 1929, Page 2
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