Time and the Vision
ORE Lives Than One, an NZBS product recently broadcast from 3YA turned out to be a squib. It went on hissing in a very promising way but never soared into the upper air. The story concerns an ex-parson who, having joined the army in order to find a faith that would give him courage to live or die, is chosen as one of a reconnaissance party sent on a very dangerous mission. Faced with almost certain death the padre, by dismissing the past and the future, is able to bear the present with calm. The acting was good and the sound effects, such as the machine-gun fire and -303 shots, were well knit into the play, but the plot lagged. That a brave captain faced with a really dangerous situation should crumple up and that the padre should suddenly become a Daniel merely because he thinks of time in a new way is on the one hand too neat, and on the other unconvincing. Is it trite to think that always the vision | which can brace a frightened man is
larger than his ideas on Time? And if this is implied in the play ought it not to have been more strongly emphasised?
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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208Time and the Vision New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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