MOZART AND MENAGE
"HE gentle art of the essayist has not been entirely lost in spite of the fact that few people today read essays-it is found in such programmes as Denis Mitchell’s The Worm That Never Turned-a light-heatted account of silk and silkworms. Here we have a topic that Charles Lamb might have played with-not too serious, not too light, not particularly topical, yet having a reasonably permanent claim on our interest, and providing many an opening for scholarly digression. But unfortunately the spoken word tempts more to brashness than the written, and The Worm’s opening episode on the Ark ("Keep that brontosaurus quiet!) took a lot of living down by the rest of the programme.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 10
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117MOZART AND MENAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 10
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