GOOD WEEK FOR TALKS
AST week qualified for nomination as "Talks Week of the Year." It is months since I’ve heard such a pleasing variety of good speakers from 1YA and 1YC. I had become rather tired of Arthur Jacobs’s occasionally obvious sessions, but his final talk, "Bernard Shaw as a Music Critic," was as delightful as the title promised (yet what was that ancient recording of "Casta Diva" doing in that gallery?) Professor Oppenheimer’s first Reith Lecture promised a meaty series; somewhat flatly delivered, it was still, as expected, thoughtful and provocative. The "locals" did not suffer by comparison. Jack Golson’s description of scientific techniques used to determine chronology in _ pre-history, blended knowledge and_ enthusiasm, David Wentworth dealt entertainingly with life in the Torres Strait, and, in his talk on Beddoes, Carl Straubel seemed to me to go beyond the obvious, and to convey something of the real quality of that queer fish, Even Book Shop, which nowadays I find less*and less interesting, presented, instead of those fascinating books on dogs, dress and Decatur, three «sound and informative Children’s Book Week chats. ‘"There’s glory for you!"-as an NZBS official, if I remember rightly, once remarked.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 10
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196GOOD WEEK FOR TALKS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 10
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