"LITTLE MURDERESSES"
Sir,-I listened on Monday last to the session from 3YC called Little Murderesses, and was appalled by the exhibition of "horror thinking" given. For intelligent persons to take a charming book-a classic of childhood-such as Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women and read murder into it, and into the lives of its characters, seems to be indicative of how far the trend of "horror comics"
has led us. Today’s men, women and children are being led into this acceptance of violence and horror by the type of book, magazine, and radio serial offered to them, and it is time the governments of many countries realised this, and did something to counteract this belief in the inevitability of violence, rapine and murder.
J.
RYAN
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 5
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125"LITTLE MURDERESSES" New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 5
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