Various Grievances
OAN STEVENS accurately pinpointed things which annoy us in 3YA’s Here’s My Discomfort. Experiencing the rowdy burrowing for sweets by filmgoers, Miss Stevens is not surprised that paper can be used in the studio to simulate the elements. She dealt also with the loud-mouthed votaries who talk of all they have seen while the travelogue focuses on historic London. Some things were peculiar to women-for instance, throwing a mackintosh over house clothes and then simmering in the unexpected warmth. of town because the coat cannot be taken off, suffering for the conventions. Lastly Miss Stevens railed at the use of the words "of course." interpreting it as a sign of intellectual snobbery. But surely this is a harmless device used by the writer to let his readers gently in on something they may or may not know about. If the information given is well known to one half of the readers they will supply their own contemptuous "of
course," and if it is not known to the the other half and is withheld they will feel that you are writing above them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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184Various Grievances New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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