"The Happiest Days"
"HAT schooldays were the "happiest days of one’s life" was a ofce generally accepted axiom that is now often questioned. This is either because we have a better memory for the sorrows and joys of our childhood, or because the modetn world despite its faults is more welcome to the adult than was that in which our forebears grew up. At afly trate, 3YC’s "The Taste of Youth" hardly supports the older theory. There was the fun which included the choice howler describing Morons as the inhabitants of Salt Lake City, and there was variety in the convincing interludeg retrieved from childhood and re-enacted in this BBC programme. Yet when one remembers the trials of his lessons in Latin one is aware that Norman Henry, like Stephen Spender, must look back on his school days with mixed feelings. Towards the last Mr. Henry did not want to leave boarding school for the big wide world, yet again fear of the unknown cannot be equated with contentment with the known. The most that can be said for childhood, as of the rest of life, is that in retrospect it forms a rich tapestry that is inconceivable apart from the trials and sorrows which are as mitch a part of it as its
simple joys:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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217"The Happiest Days" New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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