Coming Round the Bend

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 15

Coming Round the Bend

with

Denis

Glover

T was a scenic concert. It opened with a cascade of coughing. | OOKING back, on the few pieces of unimportant journalism I have written, I can congratulate myself, though perhaps on nothing else, that I have never once used the word "virtually." IN was once original. But, ah! the copyists, and oh! the imitators. BACHELOR friend tells me he now has a home of his own. "Responsi-bilities-dreadful!"’ I told him to get married, and his wife would shoulder them all. WOULD a true Roman be a soldier who disdains to fall on a borrowed sword? "THE main thing that men find wrong '" with women is that they are too often too devastatingly right. DON’T know why a chap I respect very much should speak with the platitudinous exactitude of the Dunedin town clock ringing the chimes. F character may be judged by appearance, it’s time more of us bought full-length mirrors. "CO anyway." This serves as a linking phrase in the long, rambling, inconsequent and quite pointless conversation that characterises us as a nation. A TIGERISH listener is one waiting to pounce when you pause for breath. O we all know the man who knows everybody-but nobody wants to know him? TANDARDS. I have my standards. They are very high standards, They are so high that I am not tall enough to live up to them. \ ‘HEN -a man says he wanits only tolerance in a woman, it means he demands his own way. When a woman says she tolerates her husband it means that he hasn’t got it.