When applying for a job. one normally has to write a CURRICULUM VITAE. and append the names of two REFEREES, who will be willing to give a confidential CHARACTER REFERENCE on one’s behalf. On receipt of the C.V. and the two CHARACTER REFERENCES, the Employer decides whether the Applicant suits his needs better than any of the other numerous applicants. I suppose this system has been used in more or less this fashion for thousands of years with slight modifications. [Read more…]
Archives for January 1995
61. In Praise of Little Things
I am sure that some of my (English) readers will remember the days of the BBC Radio programme known as “Children’s Hour”. It was introduced by “Uncle Mac” (Derek McCulloch). As a young lad in the war-time years of the early 1940s, I can even now remember my joyful anticipation as I waited for such firm favourites as “Toytown“, “Norman and Henry Bones”, “Cowleaze Farm”, and the Zoo Man (George Cansdale). And at the end of the programme, Uncle Mac would say “Goodnight children – everywhere.” Suppose the BBC were to repeat a few numbers from those days. How would the children of today react? [Read more…]