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AWERAU, I feel, is something to crow about, and the documentary programme on Kawerau last Sunday morning (April 17) was instinct with the same belief. It crowed with conviction and virtuosity, using, especially in the early part of the programme, the rising inflections, sudden silences, crashing chords and al] the other appurtenances of urgency that give the listener the agreeably fluttered feeling of being courted. I can, of course, remember being aroused to resistance and even flight by this same technique, but, of course, it all depends what’s doing the courting. The epic proportions of Kawerau demand nothing less than the full treatment, and so successful was the programme in generating excitement at the beginning that it carried us without tedium through the slower-moving stretches-for example, the conversations with the American executive who spoke English. very slowly as though it were a foreign language. I emerged at
programme’s end with the satisfied purr of one whose national pride has been
stroked the right way.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 11
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168Full Treatment New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 11
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