Far Too Serious
FTER listening for a couple of weeks to the Auckland panel in Opinion Phase queening it over the Wellington air I shall be pleased to welcome back the hometown quartet Speaking For Ourselves. And I am prompted by no narrow parochialism. No one can question the ‘versatility and 20 h.p. intellect of the Auckland foursome, but the serious-mindedness of the Auckland public makes them send in for their session questions which encourage the panel to luxuriate in intellectual pessimism of the worst type. Not for the Auckland questioner such frivolities as "Do cats purr when alone?" or "House or Flat?" He prefers such leading questions as "Are we happier in the 20th Century than people were before? Why aren’t we?" or "Do labour-saving devices make us happier? Why not?" and the panel allows old-fogeyism to talk wistfully of the dear dead days they themselves have never experienced,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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150Far Too Serious New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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