Out of Focus
IKE fish floating lazily in the of the Caribbean the West Indies dream of their sordid and splendid past. Poring over a map of the area and noting the many paragraphs in red type which pick out significant historical events, I am confirmed in my opinion that, lively as it was, Colin Wills’s talk heard from 3YC might have been a good deal better. We were tantalised with the merest scraps of music beaten out on the’percussion instruments made from steel oil drums because the people were too poor to buy anything else, scraps about Sir Henry Morgan and Lord Nelson; the chatter of wealthy tourists skimming off the glamour of one of the islands, while the mechanic in British Guiana insists that no Government help is given to the unemployed. Now, if such a feature was to be truly a "Window on the Caribbean," it should have been extended into several talks and included tales of the sacked or deserted Mayan Cities on the coastline of Central America. And if the present political set-up was to be dealt with at all, then something more was required than the brief statements of optimistic business men, happy students, and the poor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 10
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203Out of Focus New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 10
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