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Press, 10 May 1979, Page 22

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RENAISSANCE For so long has the average male been dominated by his ruthless counter-part that the tyrrany is taken for granted: as is his unselfish acceptance of his role in this Earthly dream. This is the sad little story of a man who has been married for 26 years and were he asked the meaning of “freedom" he would have to look it up in her dictionary. They had visitors for dinner. When he had finished carving the roast beef and she had artistically arranged the vegetables on the plates, he put them on the table before the waiting guests. Then he took off his apron and took his place at the nominal head of the table. Because there were guests the gravy was put on the table in a gravy boat. Normally, she would have poured it on to the plates at the kitchen sink.

: I Primly the gravy was passed round I the table but on coming to him he i declined. His wife’s eyes expanded and her bosom rose threateningly. “But you love gravy,” she said; Humbly he begged to differ. “For heaven’s sake, why have you let me pour gravy over your meat for the last 26 years?” she asked in a voice pitched a little higher than normal. Apparently, their first dinner together as husband and wife, she had drowned his meat in gravy, but being a kind-hearted soul and in the flush of young love, he had praised everything about the meal, saying what a wonderful little cook she was. And so the longer she went on drowning his ■ meat in her horrible gravy the more difficult it became for him to explain to her how he loathed it.