Women in America
RS. BEATRICE ASHTON has now finished her series of talks from 2YA on Homemaking in America and I am sure that many listeners will feel this as a severe personal loss. For Mrs. Ashton was something special in the way of morning talkers. For one
thing her voice has a certain compelling quality like. that possessed by the eye of the Ancient Mariner: you could not choose but hear; and even if she had been talking on Icelandic syntax she would probably have netted a listener or two. Fortunately for the rank and file she chose a subject of general appeal, and did justice to it. Not only is she mistress of the witty and compelling phrase ("Competition is the lifebreath of American women, and they have opportunity to breathe deeply") but she keeps her wit firmly harnessed to her strong sense of values-reject-ing the quotable in favour of the less spectacular truth. _That she is not basically in favour of the American way of life is never permitted to blind her or her listeners to the good pe of American living.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 13
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185Women in America New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 13
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