All Kinds to Make a World
"TO his neighbours the combative man appears pig-headedly self-righteous. To himself he seems a martyr to justice. The combative man gets his innings in turmoils and revolutions. He then hits some glorious sixes, but his innings is liable to be a short one." F. L. Combs sums up the combative type in this way in the first of a new series of talks on Types of Personality (listeners will remember the earlier series, broadcast last year), which will start from 1YC at 8.0 p.m.-on Friday, July 3. Mr. Combs uses as examples of the combative type George Eliot’s character Dowlas, the farrier, and William Cobbett-"the John Bull par excellence in Britannia’s China shop, and, for good measure, at times in America’s, too." Going to the other extreme in his second talk, Mr. Combs discusses sympathetic people and says some interesting things about sympathetic understanding as it influenced the work of Tolstoy, Browning and George Eliot. Types with which Mr. Combs deals in the rest of the series are the unstable, the solitary, the literalminded, the self-effacing, the gregarious (on the friendly level and on the herd level), the isogenic and the repulsive.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 26
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198All Kinds to Make a World New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 26
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