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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... course , greater freedom also sometimes allowed him to indulge crotchets and prejudices . Some of his ideas now seem dated , and some of his predictions were wrong . Modern readers will not like his patronizing references to Canadian ...
... course , greater freedom also sometimes allowed him to indulge crotchets and prejudices . Some of his ideas now seem dated , and some of his predictions were wrong . Modern readers will not like his patronizing references to Canadian ...
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... course in pursuing their dreams . In his essay on Macphail , Leacock shares his friend's belief " that the real virtue of a nation is bred in the country , that the city is an unnatural product " ; but he also admits this was ...
... course in pursuing their dreams . In his essay on Macphail , Leacock shares his friend's belief " that the real virtue of a nation is bred in the country , that the city is an unnatural product " ; but he also admits this was ...
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... him for doctoral work , which meant two years of courses at Chicago ( “ a raw place " with a huge new graduate school but no student common facilities ) 24 followed by a rather thin thesis . In " Looking Back 22 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
... him for doctoral work , which meant two years of courses at Chicago ( “ a raw place " with a huge new graduate school but no student common facilities ) 24 followed by a rather thin thesis . In " Looking Back 22 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
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... course , that one must be raised on the old farm and then succeed in getting off it . Those who stayed on it turned into rustics , into " hicks " , and " rubes " , into those upstate characters which are the delight of the comic stage ...
... course , that one must be raised on the old farm and then succeed in getting off it . Those who stayed on it turned into rustics , into " hicks " , and " rubes " , into those upstate characters which are the delight of the comic stage ...
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... course in 1876 a lot of old primeval trees , towering hemlocks and birch , were still standing . The last of the great bush fires that burned them out was in the summer when we came , the bush all burning , the big trees falling in ...
... course in 1876 a lot of old primeval trees , towering hemlocks and birch , were still standing . The last of the great bush fires that burned them out was in the summer when we came , the bush all burning , the big trees falling in ...
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