Grandstands and Towers
JIETRONIUS, that arbiter elegantiae (Leo Genn to you) probably arbitrated about a number of things of which he had no direct experience. Talk of the circus games at his table was, for example, entirely theoretical, which is possibly one reason for the Decline and Fall. In comparison our New Zealand Petroniuses are whole men. The chairman of last week’s Book Shop (and his audience with him) moved with consummate ease and no decline in interest from a literary competition (whose entries would not have disgraced the New Statesman) to a review of Terry McLean’s account of the last All Black Tour, followed by comments from the All Black captain, There is much to be said for a cultural landscape that can show grandstands as well as ivory towers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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131Grandstands and Towers New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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