WORLD CLASS CONSCIOUS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 12

WORLD CLASS CONSCIOUS

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Something worries. Me a Bit about You, Sir. It isn’t your Social Status or your 1.Q., Sir. It isn’t your Health, physical or mental, Financial, Spiritual, or Dental. It isn’t Anything to do with your Face, Nothing at All disreputable or base. It isn’t your Politics, or your Religion, Neither of which is my Pigeon. On Questions of Principle I’d never doubt You, What bothers Me is Whether there isn’t Something about You That’s not quite WORLD STANDARD, I feel Somehow that WORLD STANDARDS matter a great deal; When I visit the World I never hear of Them, Back here at Home I walk in holy Fear of Them! —Sir, are You in WORLD CLASS? I’ve got to know. There’s Nothing about Anything worries me so Much! You can call it Good, or Beautiful,—Yes, But that’s no Guarantee that it’s UP TO W.S. Not only You, Sir, but every Book I read, Every Sport or Art I follow, even indeed The Roads I drive on, the Scenery I pass,— It LOOKS all right, but—is it in World Class? I think of the GREAT POETS, how They might Have managed had THEY been in such a Plight. * ♦ * Wm. WORDSWORTH GETS WITH IT ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE Earth hath not anything to show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching to the Tourist’s eye, Up to World Standard! etc. • * * ROBERT BURNS GOES ONE BETTER My Love is like a red, red, rose That’s newly sprung in June. My Love is like a Bagpipe blown, World Standards a’ aboon. * * ♦ CAVALIERLY, SO TO SPEAK Come, drink to the Lass That is truly World Class! With a fa la la, etc. ♦ » ♦ TOM BRACKEN CAN’T HELP IT Not quite WORLD-CLASS, we struggle to achieve It, Our Failures frequent as the Years go by. Up to World Standard —dimly we perceive It! We persevere, then give up with a Sigh, NOT QUITE WORLD CLASS