Super Summer-up
ISS BETTY ODELL’S masterly summing-up of the Friday night appreciation talks (2YA, October 8) fills me with faith in an education system that can produce so feat a summerupper. Miss Odell’s method of quoting verbatim from each of the preceding appreciation talks and adding her own comments was delightfully informal, and had the merit of reminding listeners of the salient points in each speaker’s argument while at the same time implying that there’s no more obligation to believe all we hear from the NZBS than there is to believe all we read in the newspapers. I think it is the first sum-ming-up I have heard over the air which was more than an uncritical and unquestioning résumé of previous arguments. Now this method of rounding off a series could in unskilled hands be destructive, it could concentrate the attention of listeners on minor and less proven policies and make them feel that they and their speakers had got nowhere. But that did not happen. The guarded rather than facile optimism of Miss Odell’s conclusions bears witness not only to-her own judgment but to the calibre of her predecessors.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 9
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190Super Summer-up New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 9
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