Good Questions, Good Answers
SPEAKING for myself, I liked the Speaking for Ourselves session I heard from 2YA on August 23, since all three factors, Chairman, speakers, questions, seemed particularly well adapted to their environment. The questions were concrete-and yet elastic: eg., "Have any discoveries or inventions been entirely beneficial to mankind?" "Will the world food shortage be pérmanently overcome?" "Name your favourite fiction writer, past and present; and give reasons." The speakers spoke up like men, and answered the questions in the spirit in which they were asked. There was none of this business of stripping off the flesh in order to worry the bone ("It all depends on what you mean by fiction"), nor any tendency to let the conversational ball roll beyond the limits of listeners’ interest or comprehension. And, above all, a sense of leisure per- _ waded the session. There was no hustling to. push on to the next topic (possibly the fact that I had just been listening to 2ZB’s Answer Please made me the more conscious of this), and speakers and Chairman had ample opportunity to stop and crack an anecdote (one of which I had heard before) as they reclined at ease on the edge of the conversational stream.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 480, 3 September 1948, Page 12
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