More Like Than Unlike
OUR humorous weekly Punch, and the American humorous weekly New Yorker, are excellent specimens of their kind, but they are very different indeed, and seem to belong to two different worlds. But in my. view the gap between these two periodicals is much wider than the gap between their respective readers; ‘or put it this way — the actual readers of Punch are /
not as determinedly British as Punch itself is, and the readers of the New Yorker ate not so thoroughly American as the New Yorker is. The result is that I have found, over and over again, that when I get together with ordinary folk on business or pleasure, we’re surprised to discover how alike we are and how easy it is to get along together. . .. Several of the boys, supported by the whole bunch, declared emphatically that their greatest and most pleasant discovery was that the English, instead of having no sense of humour at all, as they had been led to believe, had actually an enotmous and all-pervading sense of humour. Hearing this proclaimed so unanimously I nearly cheered. -(J. B. Priestley in a BBC Talk atter meeting a number of young American officers in England.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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203More Like Than Unlike New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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