Age and Wisdom
puet recently, LYA replayed Experi- ~~ ence of Age, interviews with Bertrand Russell, Lawrence Housman, Gilbert Murray and Walter de la Mare, in which these old men (all venerable, but some more venerable thar others) said something about life from th~ octogenarian’s point of view. Hard on its heels, we have Prepare to Beach (1YC). an NZBS series on the pleasures and pains of retirement. Both, in their way, admirable programmes, but leading me to wish that sometimes we could hear less thoroughly ripened views on life, to provide, at least, consolation for those who have still to achieve that eminence which advanced years so readily confers on mediocrities. Why not On Being 21, a "new adults" appraisal of his adolescence, On- Reaching £0, a short survey of a greying. world, lost illusions and a thickening waist-line, or even On Attaining 10, which might be the most provocative of the lot? After all, if youth is too precious a thing to be thrown away on young people, as I think Shaw said, why should retrospective wisdom be the prerogative of the aged?
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 11
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186Age and Wisdom New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 11
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