Living Legend
HERE Hornblower represents the romance of the sea, and The Cruel Sea something like the harsh reality, Cloud of Sail (from 1YA and 1YC) a programme about the Cutty Sark, gave us a combination of both. The sailing ship, as it existed in the great days just before the coming of steam, was the end-product of a wonderfully complex craftsmanship, and the mere sight of those tall towers and spires of white canvas moving under the wind is enough to rouse what Herbert Read would call "the sense of glory." Yet the classics of sail-the books of Dana or Melville, for example-are enough to remind us that the great ships could be "heaven above and hell below," and that this unequalled grace was paid for both in | heroism and in brutality. This lively
and absorbing programme had an equal eye to both sides of the picture-to the rivalry with the Thermopylae and the race with the steamship Britannia, and to the rigours of a disastrous voyage under a bucko mate. It showed how a strictly commercial proposition could also (in this case) be a living legend.
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 10
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190Living Legend New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 10
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