Traditions
New Zealand had no tradition comparable with the American “Main Street” type of literature, which for more than a century had delineated and explained American society and its various communities, said Mr S. H. Franklin in the first of a series of lectures on "The New Zealand Community.” The most recent effort in this tradition was the novel “Lolita,” in which the contradictory and latest of American communities, the motel, had been captured. "New Zealand significantly is denied ‘Lolita,’ ” he said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29468, 21 March 1961, Page 14
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82Traditions Press, Volume C, Issue 29468, 21 March 1961, Page 14
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