SIR,—All this talk about angry young men is rather tedious.
You can only be angry when you are unable to do anything about a set of circumstances, e.g. caught for exceeding the speed limit, forgetting to lock the front door and having the house ransacked. In other words, the deficiency lies in you, not in the world around you.
You, cannot be angry about the bad, the common- place or the ineffective. You can despise or regret that it exists, but if you have any spleen you set about putting it right, not just advertising its faults.
In your issue of October 25 Mr. Donaldson decries plays like The Reluctant Debutante (written by an angry middle-aged Liberal), but it was an unqualified success—is Mr. Donaldson or the British public wrong? Dry Rot to him apparently stinks— in its aggravated natural state it does, but so must the British public, because• it is still running after four years.
Angriness is surely concerned with the petti- fogging issues in life—let's all be angry at some stage, but don't let's be serious about it for long.
Once one becomes positive one ceases to be angry. But, of course, it is so much easier to criticise
and it brings so much more applause. Let us all be smart and angry and of no repute whatsoever.—
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