SURNAMES ONLY
Sir-I am afraid "Respect Your Elders" is most inconsistent in her (or his) argument, The acme of fame is recognised in having one’s name handed down to posterity. Stout and Massey are good illustrations of this: I suggest, too, that if your correspondent is asked the Christian names of many famous peopie she (or he) would be hard put to it to answer, What about, for instance (quoting The Listener); Music: Tchaikovski, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Mozart? Science: Rutherford, Marconi, Farraday? Poets: Byron, Shelley, Longfellow, Keats? bd Statesmen: Disraeli, Gladstone? "Respect Your Elders" seems to be airing her (or his) knowledge, but the pettiness displayed in doing it suggests that her (or his) name will never go down with the famous few who have the honour to be called by their surnames only-as for example, just plain Roose-
velt or Churchill. -.
WALKER
(Some
day; I hope), Wellington.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 23
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149SURNAMES ONLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 23
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