Give Us a Break
|7T’s unfair to use Athol Congalton’s first talk on Measuring Intelligence as the text for a sigh about YC talks in general, for it was very good of its kind. It was clearly written, without too much jargon, it was unexceptionably delivered, it embodied his own experience, and it told us something we ought to be told: that most of us when we talk about 1.Q.’s don’t know what we're talking about. It was one of the best of the type of earnest, intelligent, informative and unimaginative talk which gives the YC schedule the look of. an adult education course. I have no objection to it at all. All I object to is that there is so little respite from this kind of talk, so much talking to be interested in, so little to delight in. Speakers who can talk with wit and imagination are often consicered lightweights, and you find them on the YAs. I’m pleased to see the YAs given talks like D, W. McKenzie’s Wonderful World of Maps, but I’d like more of his kind from the YCs, people who. will give us something approaching’ intelligent conversation rather than lectures. Every now and then such a talk appears — Eileen Duggan on Walter de la Mare would have been one if it hadn’t been so badly read by her substitute. But oh for more |
of them!
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 31
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234Give Us a Break New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 31
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