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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Page 10
... live a few years will know of wonderful happenings in the world , for the path has got to be made straight or the path will lead over the abyss . The problem cannot wait . It has grown too acute . The world has no time for bungling , or ...
... live a few years will know of wonderful happenings in the world , for the path has got to be made straight or the path will lead over the abyss . The problem cannot wait . It has grown too acute . The world has no time for bungling , or ...
Page 18
... , but he seems to have had enough money to live comfortably until he died in 1940 . He did not drink and was a gentle person who was kind to children and heartbroken at the loss of a son . Leacock 18 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
... , but he seems to have had enough money to live comfortably until he died in 1940 . He did not drink and was a gentle person who was kind to children and heartbroken at the loss of a son . Leacock 18 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
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... live a comfortable and respectable life . But for him and most like him it threatened to be the graveyard of ambition . Leacock did not consider himself fortunate to teach at Upper Canada College even if it was the best school in the ...
... live a comfortable and respectable life . But for him and most like him it threatened to be the graveyard of ambition . Leacock did not consider himself fortunate to teach at Upper Canada College even if it was the best school in the ...
Page 26
... lives themselves , and all our works , are " but as nothing , all that we do has in it a touch of the pathetic , and even our sins and wickedness and crime are par- doned in the realization of their futility . " Outside is infinity ...
... lives themselves , and all our works , are " but as nothing , all that we do has in it a touch of the pathetic , and even our sins and wickedness and crime are par- doned in the realization of their futility . " Outside is infinity ...
Page 40
... live , to learn , to love . " ( See page 254. ) In spite of failing health Leacock drove himself hard with many projects . In late 1943 he was diagnosed with throat cancer , and by early 1944 he knew the end was near . Two years ...
... live , to learn , to love . " ( See page 254. ) In spite of failing health Leacock drove himself hard with many projects . In late 1943 he was diagnosed with throat cancer , and by early 1944 he knew the end was near . Two years ...
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