THE BRAVERY OF FACES

Press, 7 June 1980, Page 14

THE BRAVERY OF FACES

By

WHIM WHAM

"We are going to havfe the opportunity to negotiate a wider agreement. I know I am not putting a brave face on it”. ...was hopeful . New Zealand would achieve “a reasonable agreement”.—Mr Taiboys on his sheepmeat discussions in Europe. , People who put Brave Faces On Things, e.g. losing at the Races’, May tell you the Truth or conceal It, However bitterly they feel It — Good Losers don’t cry, it’s the sad ones - • . Who show Themselves bad ones. Brave Faces are Masks, they’re designed To cover what’s, behind — . . Your Mask may be comical and cheerful, Or tragic and tearful — It’s like Acting, the Art That you bring to your Part With our Brian, I’m bound to agree It’s no Brave Face I see, ' No Mask, but the . Man who reveals To us All, what he feels— * Those Anxieties, Wishes, Frustrations/. His own, and the Nation’s! . •, That’s the Thing about Brian — . . You and I have the Faces we try on, ; ; Masks for J hiding Anxiety — ' ; . ? . ; ■■■/•■ : We’ve, got quite a Variety! ' . • . Not'the Brian we see . / * When he’s Live on TeeVee —• -It’s transparently HE. - .. ' He Ju§t . doesn’t possess Facility, V • . That .acting Ability, < ; '■--if he’s worried, the Worry’sView, . j — that a ; Child can’t see'through! I respect That,,don’t,You? - . i