By BRYAN ROBERTSON
tunities we need for assessing the situation as a whole at any given moment. No complaints in either of these quarters, but the fact remains that until our livelier artists are used, up to the hilt, and released from the incessant show- biz circus, their creative strength can only be enjoyed and understood by a very limited pub- lic. For anyone like myself, trying to act as a flexible transmission station (and occasional commentator), this basic lack of reality is a sad compromise with what should be a new age of enlightenment. That is, a time like !the present when England is bristling with talent (and some flashes of sheer genius) and an unprecedented breakthrough has been achieved which could transform all our lives, believe it or not; totally disrupt whatever vestiges of a dull English image may remain in some quarters abroad— and back up our scientific and technological advances with an equivalent glow of re-charged imaginative insight and verve.
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