And So We Leave...
HE travelogue manner in commentators, made familiar by many grim experiences at the movies, proves insidious. An excellent programme (3YA, Sunday 10th) on the work of the Friends Ambulance Unit in Ethiopia was marred
by this characteristic fruitiness. The sun was restrained from Sinking Slowly in the West, but. its baleful influence was none the less apparent. I have become completely numb to certain travelogue adjectives like " beautiful " and "purple" (of mountains). If, as some-
times happens, no attempt is made to give the character of a landscape, laudatory adjectives are completely pointless. But the feature was otherwise impeccable, and I particularly liked the interpreter bellowing hygienic instructions in Amharic to the assembled populace-only one kept trying to guess which was the most frequently recurring word.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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130And So We Leave... New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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