Sir,-A shrill editorial attack such as you indulged in at the expense of a new literary venture must surely be unique. Your criticism was not even based on the contents of the first issue, but on the aims of the journal as expressed in a publicity leaflet, There is not such a wealth of cultural activity in ‘this country that further enterprise in the publishing field is redundant. On the contrary: and one would expect from you, in your semiofficial capacity, benevolent patronage and encouragement rather than scorn and derision.
R.
GOODMAN
| (Auckland). |
("Scorn and derision?’"? Yet it* cannot be surprising if a correspondent who says that our criticism was based on "the aims of the journal as expressed in a publicity leafiet’’ should use words as recklessly as he reads them.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 25
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