TIME ON THEIR HANDS
Sir,-At first sight it would seem that a very raw deal is being handed to some people. On the one hand we have the Teddy Boys and Bodgies and Widgies of Christchurch with time on their hands and no more intelligent way of using it than to haunt the streets and milk bars. On the other hand, there is the highly intelligent group of student observers from Canterbury College, graciously pleased to take time off from their usual highly intellectual activities to make a (presumably) valuable social study of the first group. It does seem to me, though, that nothing very new emerged, nor does it appear that the young people were detected in any conduct approaching the ridiculous organised hooliganism of the annual students’ procession. I hope that the students do not entertain any foolish notion that they belong to any privileged group, or think that they can report on any other social group in a detached way as suffering from ills from which they are themselves immune. No one living today is immune from the terrible and grievous sickness of our times. The students’ report may be likened to a report made by a patient on fellow patients in the same hospital ward-all, including the reporter, due to die of the same mysterious pestilence. There are, perhaps, other groups to whom the students could turn. But they had better be quick, for one feels that the military morons who control the hydrogen bomb are going to have their way with it any time now.
NOT AMUSED
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 911, 25 January 1957, Page 5
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263TIME ON THEIR HANDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 911, 25 January 1957, Page 5
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