Treasonable Thoughts
ROBABLY the play was to blame. Coriolanus is stiff listening for democrats, and I may have weakened in my faith in the ability of the commonsense of most to hold this fretful world under control, At anye rate, listening to the United Nations’ Album during the Coriolanus interval, I found myself entertaining treasonable thoughts.’ The duillness of the programme was not perhaps the speakers’ fault. No one can blame a busy President for uttering important truths in a mechanical manner, or a sanitation engineer for lacking histrionic fire, But the point is that this is supposed to be publicity, someone is responsible for it, and it ought to be the best in the world, whereas this was worse than uninspiring. As for the young lady from Jamaica, introduced to show the zeal for the cause that burns in the breast of the smallest jobholders at Lake Success, she was certainly not dull. Everybody and everything was "just too wonderful," Her personality came over the air most successfully, but I felt it was unfortunate that at the end of a United Nations’ session I should find myself thinking, with Hitler, that some personalities might well be suppressed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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198Treasonable Thoughts New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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