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TALKING OF Pye seein by Cecil Mull; Oswald Sealey; 2/6. T is satisfying to find good talks being put into print, for by nature radio is evanescent. This is literally the winged word, which we can hold only in memory. For this reason it is more important that the listener, as opposed to the reader, should study words, their meaning and history, their romance, and in these days of mass emotion and organised propaganda, their power to mislead and destroy. Words can be infinitely lovely or an dangerous, as T.N.T. and when they come over the air they carry the persuasiveness of the voice and their effect cannot be checked by reading back. Miss Cecil Hull, who has a national public as a broadcaster on
the subject, has. put into a booklet under the title Talking of Words six talks she gave in 1950. In 30 pages Miss Hull covers a wide range, from the embed-|}-ding of history in geography as in various place-names derived from "Caesar," descents in meaning, as in the word "tawdry," the beauty and magic of words, and the exasperations and humours of officialese English. In blend of scholarship and wit, she is in the line of instructor-entertainers like A. P. Herbert and‘ Ivor Brown in England, and Walter Murdoch in Australia. and is
worthy of the association.
A.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 11
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