Without the Sting
HE first talk by Robert Allender in a new 1YC series Land Of Our Living promised well for a fresh and lively appraisal of aspects of New Zealand life, free from the clichés of the travelogue, and salted with agreeable wit. Mr. Allender, who shares 1YA’s fine Film Review session with Wynne Colgan, often presents these reviews in slightly too acid a tone which, at first hearing, anyhow, makes them sound more thoroughly destructive than in fact they ate. But, while the same pungency of phrase and sharpness of observation were to be found in his description of a laboriously slow journey on the Main Trunk line, his toné was mellower, and the humour more génial. I suppose one may dislike fourth-rate country hotels as much as fourth-rate films, but regard the one with a tolerance impossible to extend to the other. At all events, Mr. Allender’s shrewd and entertaining wordpictures of the Main Trunk few throughtravellers. ever see was delightfully urbane and pointed with a wit too seldom exercised by New Zealanders at the expense of their own institutions and "facilities."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 10
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185Without the Sting New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 10
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