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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... come to grips with the Leacock legacy . It was part of lecture entitled " How Soon Can We Start the Next War , " which ... comes it will spread like a plague , driving across the continents with all the evil winds of disaster behind it ...
... come to grips with the Leacock legacy . It was part of lecture entitled " How Soon Can We Start the Next War , " which ... comes it will spread like a plague , driving across the continents with all the evil winds of disaster behind it ...
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... " but because the hammerers stopped clattering on Main Street , our navvies stopped digging on the prairies . We ' called it a day ' too soon . ” ( See page 163 ) These good times could come again if the kind of 30 ON THE FRONT LINE OF ...
... " but because the hammerers stopped clattering on Main Street , our navvies stopped digging on the prairies . We ' called it a day ' too soon . ” ( See page 163 ) These good times could come again if the kind of 30 ON THE FRONT LINE OF ...
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... come again if the kind of energy unleashed in the boom could once more be let loose and this time kept going . ― 46 Leacock could always get publicity , and although his ideas had some appeal in the business community and the ...
... come again if the kind of energy unleashed in the boom could once more be let loose and this time kept going . ― 46 Leacock could always get publicity , and although his ideas had some appeal in the business community and the ...
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... comes to writing serious books about Canadian social problems . " 54 Fresh from the Regina Manifesto and the creation of the CCF , Underhill attacked Leacock's exhortation to " faire - faire " as " Fascist mysticism , shouting loudly à ...
... comes to writing serious books about Canadian social problems . " 54 Fresh from the Regina Manifesto and the creation of the CCF , Underhill attacked Leacock's exhortation to " faire - faire " as " Fascist mysticism , shouting loudly à ...
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... come " home . " In the last sixty years , he said , Canada had been filled in “ like a huge picture lying in a frame from the frozen seas to the American line , from Nova Scotia to the Pacific " ( page 178 ) , and it was 34 ON THE FRONT ...
... come " home . " In the last sixty years , he said , Canada had been filled in “ like a huge picture lying in a frame from the frozen seas to the American line , from Nova Scotia to the Pacific " ( page 178 ) , and it was 34 ON THE FRONT ...
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