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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... natural for Seagram's to ask him in 1941 to write Canada : The Foundations of Its Future a book that was panned by historians but became one of the great publishing successes in Canadian history , with 165,000 free copies distributed by ...
... natural for Seagram's to ask him in 1941 to write Canada : The Foundations of Its Future a book that was panned by historians but became one of the great publishing successes in Canadian history , with 165,000 free copies distributed by ...
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... the virtues of being raised on a farm , the closeness to nature , the early rising , the physical labour . The farm was the great North American equalizer , where all the important men were poor 20 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
... the virtues of being raised on a farm , the closeness to nature , the early rising , the physical labour . The farm was the great North American equalizer , where all the important men were poor 20 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
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... nature , links to the land , love , and the family are perverted to their materialist ends , politics is a corrupt grab for place and profit , and the poor suffer invisibly in the slums below the hill . In The Unsolved Riddle Leacock ...
... nature , links to the land , love , and the family are perverted to their materialist ends , politics is a corrupt grab for place and profit , and the poor suffer invisibly in the slums below the hill . In The Unsolved Riddle Leacock ...
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... technology that had finally conquered nature . Above all the country needed people : " immigrants not thousands , millions - not gradually , but in a mass " ; and children , " imported and homegrown , in cradlefuls Introduction 33.
... technology that had finally conquered nature . Above all the country needed people : " immigrants not thousands , millions - not gradually , but in a mass " ; and children , " imported and homegrown , in cradlefuls Introduction 33.
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... Nature still can claim to rule , the only place as yet but little vexed by man " ; but given time we " will spoil that too . " ( See page 167. ) As for immigra- tion , by the late 1930s he knew that his colonization schemes would not ...
... Nature still can claim to rule , the only place as yet but little vexed by man " ; but given time we " will spoil that too . " ( See page 167. ) As for immigra- tion , by the late 1930s he knew that his colonization schemes would not ...
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