Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 18. July 30, 1968

pettipoint

pettipoint

"Where", asked (so 1 am told) a lecturer of this university. "is Mr It Sole? Let him come forth! Let him perform academic feats!" And lo he did not come forth, nor perform academic feats, but undergraduates smiled, as undergraduates will.

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Get Instant Honesty Now! Join the Police Force Today! Be Believed! (Based on a recent magisterial decision continuing the tradition that the word of a policeman is more worthy, accurate, and trustworthy than that of the Ordinary Ununiformed Scunge, who tell lies).

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It is told to me that odd students were watching a Holyoake speech (yes watching-it is surely a delight to the eye rather than to the ear) and the good man cracked a funny. As good men do. And laughed. Ho. Said an audient "He's beside himself! What an ugly pair."

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I have a vision of P. J. Kelly sitting in bis carrel slowly developing a nervous twitch under the steady in-scruitinising gaze of many dark eyes. Twitch! he goes and the subtlest nuance of a triumphant gleam passes from eye to eye.

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Talking of nervous twitches, and long inscrutinies, they do say that the Czechs are not as bouncy as of yore. (To the uninitiated the yore is a sort of East European Tigger, much given to bouncing.)

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Ideology of the week-The Thesaurus by Roget.

It is surprising that Roget, a man whose intellect is possibly wider ranging than almost any other modern thinker has so rarely been treated by commentators with the respect his thought deserves. It is true that be is not always so consistent as he might be, but like the Bible and the Triboldies he ranges over the gamut of the human condition and one can therefore hardly expect the consistency which one might find in, for example, A. A. Milne's distillation of the essence of the human scene.

Roget is one of the most definitive thinkers in his field in our time, and a man of penetrating analysis.

R0oget is one of the most definitive thinkers in his field in our time, and a man of penetrating analysis.

Generations have bettered perhaps, built upon certainly, his thought-yet none has disposed his foundations. It could well be that here is the Ideology the West seeks to win the hearts and minds of the East-hearts and minds which wil otherwise be communist hearts and minds.

Here at last is that positive Ideology we have been seeking for so long: "a Roget's Thoughts!" cry I, "In every Peace Corps knapsack."