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HAT adolescents can on occasion be at least as censorious as their elders was shown in a discussion in the Let’s Talk It Over series. Here three exceptionally articulate Auckland schoolboys united to deplore the influence on the juvenile mind of thrillers and shockers in print and on the radio. It was a good, fruitful discussion which, for verve and keeping to the point, might be taken as a model by many adult panelmembers; and it had its moments of conscious humour. The general conclusions of the group as to the malignant effects of shockers, especially in theit radio serial form, would please, I imagine, most parents and teachers. I wondered, however, just how representative the opinions were supposed to be. I felt it was a pity that one unashamed and unrepentant adolescent thrilleraddict was not there to present his case, After all, as G. K, Chesterton wrote, "For whatever other reason the errandboy reads The Red Revenge, it really is not because he is dripping with the gore of his own friends and relatives."
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 10
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179No Defendant New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 10
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