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AN, that was some breeze, I’m telling you!" This remark made by one of the inhabitants of Jamaica after witnessing the hurricane of August 17 last year deserves to rank as one of the classics of under-statement. It was, however, not alone. A woman cut the saying to merely,, "Man, that was a breeze!" This way of speaking, reminding one of the celebrated "Rum and Coca Cola" song, plus the flat record of those who had lost their loved ones, and the authoritarian voice of the governor, muted the dramatic note one expected to hear, and thus made for one of the most disappointing BBC features I have heard from 3YA. The closest thing to the.drama for which one listened, was the chorus-like effect of radio warnings. In the absence of the dramatic realism that the title naturally invoked, it would
have been a richer programme if Mr. Cottrell had given more facts concerning hurricanes, with reminiscences about their effects elsewhere, and had used this most recent catastrophe as a kind of montrous joke and culminating point
to the programme.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 10
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183Still Centre New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 10
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