Neither For Nor Agoonst
ONFESSION is good for the soul. I’ve delayed making this one until I should either change my opinion or work up the courage to express it. The first has not happened, the second has, so here goes. "You either love the Goons or you loathe them," all the propagoonda says; "you can’t be indifferent to them." That’s just the trouble, I am indifferent to them. I admire the ingenuity which must give them the highest decibel-rating in radio history. I enjoy the mad inconsequence of some of their sequences, I’m decidedly cool about the voices. There I would be content to leave them, neither for nor against, if it weren’t for the ballyhoo. "The radio age has come into its own with the Goons." That’s about as sensible as saying the age of printing has come into its own with the comic strip. There are considerable resemblances. I don’t exclude the possibility of later conversion-I remember a time when I thought TIJFH wasn’t a patch on Itma. And since I like A Life of Bliss
rather betters than the Goons, readers will know what reliance to place on
such a bourgeois taste.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 25
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198Neither For Nor Agoonst New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 25
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