AGGRESSIVENESS
Sir,-It took a half-century for the world to accept the pervasiveness of the sex instinct in human affairs. It appears that a similar lag exists in recognition of further results of human investigation revealing that the aggressive instinct is equally basic and operative, thus just as equally "normal." It is difficult to believe that the film censor could be blind to this fact, but his observation to the contrary in The Listener leaves no doubt. That our public entertainment on the screen realises this fact is clear. A recent "hit," The Quiet Man, has as its underlying theme the inevitable culminating, smashing, prolonged fight with bare fists, taking pride of emphasis over the equally inevitable romantic clinch. Another hit, Bend of the River, would make an interesting study of frequency of killings and the total thereof. In a world where total war twice in 25 years has failed to quell the distinct possibility of bigger and better mass killings, the normalcy of aggressiveness need not be
doubted:
J.
B.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 5
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171AGGRESSIVENESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 5
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