Rites of Spring
| SOMETIMES wonder what happens in the Brains Trust Studio at the BBC when the session is over. Do the members get together and gather up some of those loose threads of argument that have been left dangling, or do they rush
out into the fog to other engagements? So often they are just getting going on a topic when they are brought back to the point, or switched to the next question, or reminded that they are on dangerous ground. For one reason or another they seldom have a chance to de--velop as they could do that rare and wayward art of good conversation. The other evening they were faced with the question af what causes those attacks of spring-cleaning that affect housewives each year. There were the stock answers about grime from winter fires and dirty carpets shown up in the brightening light, and the usual complaint from someone who lived in a house where spring-cleaning went on all the year round. Then Dr. Snow expressed a wish to draw comparisons between spring~ cleaning and some of the spring rites described in "The Golden Bough," Upon which the questionmaster politely but hastily applied the closure, and we passed. to the next question with regrets from all except Mrs. Grundy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 313, 22 June 1945, Page 8
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213Rites of Spring New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 313, 22 June 1945, Page 8
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