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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... human being to another . The essays are representative of many more that could have been chosen . I have tried to encompass his main interests and have avoided taking too many from any one book . Where essays were published in book form ...
... human being to another . The essays are representative of many more that could have been chosen . I have tried to encompass his main interests and have avoided taking too many from any one book . Where essays were published in book form ...
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... human spirit can truly lead to social justice , peace , and progress . It is his need to reach that spirit that underlies Leacock's life and work as an educator , lecturer , econo- mist , humorist , and essayist . II In one way or ...
... human spirit can truly lead to social justice , peace , and progress . It is his need to reach that spirit that underlies Leacock's life and work as an educator , lecturer , econo- mist , humorist , and essayist . II In one way or ...
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... human civilization , culminating in the Victorian era . Thus humour rose " from the trivialities of the ' Ancients , ' the indecencies of Chaucer , through the great Elizabethans and on past the smiles of Addison and the tears of Sterne ...
... human civilization , culminating in the Victorian era . Thus humour rose " from the trivialities of the ' Ancients , ' the indecencies of Chaucer , through the great Elizabethans and on past the smiles of Addison and the tears of Sterne ...
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... humanity and freedom . Government intervention would succeed only if it were part of a moral and spiritual regeneration . People had to rediscover the older values of human decency , patriotism , self - sacrifice , public and private ...
... humanity and freedom . Government intervention would succeed only if it were part of a moral and spiritual regeneration . People had to rediscover the older values of human decency , patriotism , self - sacrifice , public and private ...
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... human courage and endurance , but it was great dreams , massive projects , machines , and technology that had finally conquered nature . Above all the country needed people : " immigrants not thousands , millions - not gradually , but ...
... human courage and endurance , but it was great dreams , massive projects , machines , and technology that had finally conquered nature . Above all the country needed people : " immigrants not thousands , millions - not gradually , but ...
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