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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... talking to us as one 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 ...
... talking to us as one 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 ...
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... talk to 1000 in a whisper , " he once boasted . He was a master at varying his pace , content , rhythm , and mood to catch his audience , hold it , lift it emotionally , make it laugh , deliver punchlines , and leave a serious message ...
... talk to 1000 in a whisper , " he once boasted . He was a master at varying his pace , content , rhythm , and mood to catch his audience , hold it , lift it emotionally , make it laugh , deliver punchlines , and leave a serious message ...
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... talk , their action apparently to need no guidance from trained scien- tific intellects but to be decided by pure intuition . " Younger academics believed that it was possible to achieve prosperity and justice through social planning ...
... talk , their action apparently to need no guidance from trained scien- tific intellects but to be decided by pure intuition . " Younger academics believed that it was possible to achieve prosperity and justice through social planning ...
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... talking , fears everything , predicts a dire future , and dies a week later , is darkly funny and certainly not kindly , but it is an honest expression of the fear and anger of a man who recognizes that he has lost paradise and that the ...
... talking , fears everything , predicts a dire future , and dies a week later , is darkly funny and certainly not kindly , but it is an honest expression of the fear and anger of a man who recognizes that he has lost paradise and that the ...
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... talk in lean prose . We must , once and for all , create the prosperity and social justice without which the world will face an endless legacy of misery and war . “ Older people , ” he says , " are battered out of shape , or were never ...
... talk in lean prose . We must , once and for all , create the prosperity and social justice without which the world will face an endless legacy of misery and war . “ Older people , ” he says , " are battered out of shape , or were never ...
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