MATTERS OF TASTE
talks which deal with matters of taste, it must be hard to establish standards without crushing the toes of those listeners who treasure grocery calendar prints, stone gnomes, chromium vessels on glass and other examples of Kitsch, or the claws of those chichi merchants who have recently replaced their Degas ballet-dancers with Toulouse_Lautrec posters. In their discussions Look What’s Here (1YA and 1YC), Eric | Westbrook and Margaret Black occa- | sionally show their awareness of the _fact that their plain speaking on such | things as paintings and furniture for the home will probably conflict with the taste of most of their listeners, by introducing gentle softenings of the blows. These are all to the good, as they help to keep the genera] line of discussion from the preciosity on which, now and again, I feel it ‘dangerously verges. Although Eric Westbrook carries the burden of the sessions, with Margaret Black in the position of inquirer, there _is enough difference of opinion to pre- | vent the conversations from sounding ‘like "two against the world" of New | Zealand bourgeois bad taste. A very | useful and stimulating feature this, end, _by its original position in Feminine Viewpoint, placed where it is likely to achieve the best results.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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206MATTERS OF TASTE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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