On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress. |
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... Americans about what another European war would mean : Do not think that we can escape it here . Do not think that ... America . If it comes it will spread like a plague , driving across the continents with all the evil winds of disaster ...
... Americans about what another European war would mean : Do not think that we can escape it here . Do not think that ... America . If it comes it will spread like a plague , driving across the continents with all the evil winds of disaster ...
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... American journals , as well as more popular Canadian journals , Leacock poured out a stream of brilliant articles on Canadian con- temporary affairs , as well as religion , education , humour , women , prohibition , and other subjects ...
... American journals , as well as more popular Canadian journals , Leacock poured out a stream of brilliant articles on Canadian con- temporary affairs , as well as religion , education , humour , women , prohibition , and other subjects ...
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... American , with a hatred of class and privilege , a sense of the value of the one - room school and the country “ entertainment , ” and a tendency at times to pretend that he was just one of the " fellers . " He wrote often about the ...
... American , with a hatred of class and privilege , a sense of the value of the one - room school and the country “ entertainment , ” and a tendency at times to pretend that he was just one of the " fellers . " He wrote often about the ...
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Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944 Stephen Leacock Alan Bowker. American equalizer , where all the important men were poor before they made good . " But you had to get off the farm . His family background and his fear ...
Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944 Stephen Leacock Alan Bowker. American equalizer , where all the important men were poor before they made good . " But you had to get off the farm . His family background and his fear ...
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... American egalitarianism rebelled against Parkin's vision , and he could never accept that a teacher , at any school , was anything more than a servant to rich parents , an enforcer of tyran- nical rules , a dispenser of a prescribed ...
... American egalitarianism rebelled against Parkin's vision , and he could never accept that a teacher , at any school , was anything more than a servant to rich parents , an enforcer of tyran- nical rules , a dispenser of a prescribed ...
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