Intellect and Emotion
FIND the ZB’s Sunday night Mind Your I’s and Q’s amusing if not instructive, though my main emotion is thankfulness that I am not involved, The persons who get the actual questions are comparatively lucky (failure to supply the correct answer is passed off by Bryan O’Brien with a well-bred laugh) but less fortunate are those next on the list who are required to produce (entirely impromptu) a few well-in-formed and pithily-phrased remarks on the preceding answer. Various gambits have been evolved to deal with the situation, chief among them the Stall for Time. (Mr. Fairburn, however, seldom employs a gambit, but seems to have’ the happy knack of being able te talk around a topic indefinitely, In the last session I have heard; he denounced the speed of modern living, and by speaking very fast managed to
crowd an awful lot of denunciation into his meagre allowance of time.) The purpose of the session is "to stimulate listeners’ own thoughts on current events," but by this criterion I should say the session was a failure. No, its appeal (and it definitely has an appeal) is rather emotional. For little intellectual stimulus can result from a session as glaringly impromptu as this, but on the other hand the flounderings of transfixed participants and the sternly judicial demeanour of the compére arouse to a high degree those emotions of pity and terror so strongly recommended’ by Aristotle,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 9
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