TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Sir.-May it be asked who authorised the appearance of this misguided person on New Zealand stations? The summary of his writing, in your issue of August 30, is surely offensive to any educated New Zealanders., How does this strike you? "The crying . . . need of a-great world-wide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly in right or virtue any more than any man has a corner in duplicity and evil, etc." And, "I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays." Williams has apparently no knowledge of the Christian gospels. He is quoted as the "srandson. of a clergyman." Ingersoll was the son of a clergyman. Would anypne have the gall to read Ingersoll’s Mistakes of Moses as likely to interest New Zealand listeners?
ROBERT J.
STRONG
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 11
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159TENNESSEE WILLIAMS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 11
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