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AVID KOHN’S "Judgment of the English" (2YA, Friday, February 25) was a delightful anthology-an adequate exploitation of his bright idea of collecting up varying comments made by visitors to England over the past 400 years. There was amusement-and a moral-in the failure of the judgments to add up to anything like a body ot
opinion; each tourist had experience of one little aspect of his subject and the collected comments did not combine to form anything even as probable_as an elephant. The wide variety of accents gave scope to the technical competence of the NZBS, though one had to use some effort to avoid the conclusion that every third traveller was Frederick Farley. I admired the catholicity of the programme, ranging from Erasmus to the G.I. handbook, but deplored the too pat-on-the-back conclusion — "In how many other countries today could the traveller express his true opinion" -since in any case most of the critics had presumably waited till they got home before putting vitriol to paper.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 11
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