Rosy Fadeout
\ /HATEVER unfortunate effect Peter Llewellyn’s early talks may have had on our notoriously sensitive New Zealand hackles (even I winced a little at his picture of the spoilt New Zealand housewife), his final talk was nicely calculated to get them lying flat again. His idyllic pictures of the New Zealand baby ("Who is this St. Plunket?"), the New Zealand child, and the New Zealand
home ("cream, with a red roof and inside glossy as a magazine _illustration") were, however, to my mind products of the deliberately assumed | rose-coloured spectacles rather than of the journalist’s
straight eye; emotional clichés compared with, for example, his portrait of Lennie, the New Zealand soldier. And I am still somewhat puzzled by Mr. Llewellyn’s apparent endorsement of "the language of the juke-box." I had throughout. his talk a strong feeling that the author was trying a little too hard to be one of the boys.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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152Rosy Fadeout New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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