Let my words about this wordsmith be brief and to the point. As someone who occasionally viewed this *'curmudgeonly but prescient' thinker/commentator (in various TV media contexts) in decades long past, he was worth his (gold bullion) weight in (newspaper) column inches and rows and pages...
Bemoaning the *"lack of intelligent discussion" he feared and fully expected as future technology started to claw its way into Westerners' and others' lives in the mid-to-late-eighties, he likewise realized that *"someone somewhere is looking for an intelligent view of things...
look for it!"
A (in this case, exceedingly wise) cynic...he remained at heart an optimist...ever hoping for better things...
*Credit for the above quotations - gleaned from some scholarly work of Mr Priestley - to those on the Thursday, November 15th 'edition' of the (generally Jim Mora-led) RNZ National Pre-Panel...who moreover informed me that he'd died just the previous week...at the great old age of 92. (Odd that this media junkie heard nary a reference to that fact...till said Panel, that is... .)
No comments:
Post a Comment