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Y only complaint about.the YA discussion (March 23) on 20th Century Chivalry was that no one made use of my favourite schoolboy aphorism, "Chivalry is the way a man behaves to a strange woman." This, I feel, is the nub of the matter, the "something extra" Mrs. Turner was talking about, the act of kindness outside the likelihood of reciprocity. Whereas the panel at one stage seemed all set to drape the concept of chivalry over husband-and-wife, em-ployer-and-employee relationships and even to bring down legislation to make its blanket use compulsory. But what fun the discussion was, with plenty of interplay of personality, and with protagonists actually admitting they’d been influenced! And a special tribute to the chairman for managing to beach his discussion on a mutually acceptable bit of shore instead of following the usual practice of scuttling it in mid-stream.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 10
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144Safe Landing New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 10
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