W. H. D. Rouse
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2,788 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
W. H. D. Rouse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many varieties won my regard immediately and kept it, but I am conscious that my sympathy with one particular brand, perhaps not numerous, was at times imperfect.
The brand in question, as to which I was amiably cautioned before even leaving the steamer, is usually very young and as often a girl as a youth, and
He or she cheerfully introduces himself or herself with a hint that of course it is an awful bore to be interviewed, but he or she has a job to do, and he or she must be allowed to do it.
Just so
But the point which, in my audacity, I have occasionally permitted to occur to me, is this is this sort of interviewer capable of doing the job allotted to him?
I do not mind slips of reporting.
I do not mind a certain agreeable malice.
Indeed, I reckon to do a bit in that line myself.
I do not even mind hasty misrepresentations, for after all, we are human, and the millennium is still unannounced, but I do object to inefficiency, especially in America, where sundry kinds of efficiency have been carried farther than any efficiency was ever carried before.
Now, this sort of interviewer too often prefaces the operation itself by the remark that he really doesn't know what question to ask you.
Too often I have been tempted to say Well why not ask me to write the interview for you?
It will save you trouble.
Having made this remark, the interviewer usually proceeds to give a sketch of her own career, together with a conspectus of her opinions on everything, a reference to her importance in the interviewing world, and some glimpse of the amount of her earnings.
This achieved, she breaks off breathless and reproaches you.
But my dear man, you haven't said anything at all.
You really must say something.
My dear man is the favourite form of address of this sort of interviewer when she happens to be a girl.
Too often I have been tempted to reply Cleapatra or Helen, which of us is being interviewed?
When he has given you a chance to talk, this sort of interviewer listens, helps, corrects, advises, but never takes a note.
The result the next morning is the anticipated result.
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