Tantalising Facts
HAT is to be said for Passing Parade, Tapestries of Life and similar radio features which bring to light odd facts concerning people? About as much, I suppose, as may be said for The Digest, which gives with one hand only to take away with the other, giving facts but tending to set up a time-killing craving for information out of propofttion to the value of the unrelated knowledge given. Station 3ZB’s story on Casanova, told in Passing Parade, brought new light on the cour--age ‘and fortitude of a man who for the most part is dismissed because of our condemnation of his chosen career. How odd to learn that the same civilisation which condemns his life and work is not certain enough of itself to destroy the copy of his memoirs locked in a tower in Leipzig, or on the other hand to publish them freely. More recently the tale of an 80-year-old lawyer who came out of retirement to defend the right of an individual to speak the truth underlined,the fact that thousands of times it is not words alone which live on in the life of a nation, but a combination of the man, the word, and the hour. ee
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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205Tantalising Facts New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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