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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... political economy writing . Yet Leacock's critique was largely a moral one based not on economic principles or expertise but on humanistic values . He never believed that political economy alone could provide all the answers to the ...
... political economy writing . Yet Leacock's critique was largely a moral one based not on economic principles or expertise but on humanistic values . He never believed that political economy alone could provide all the answers to the ...
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... Political Economy Department at Toronto were invited to make keynote addresses to a conference to launch the new Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science . " No one , " says historian Brian McKillop , " could quite have ...
... Political Economy Department at Toronto were invited to make keynote addresses to a conference to launch the new Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science . " No one , " says historian Brian McKillop , " could quite have ...
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... politicians , and public servants ( including several of his students ) were creating a central bank with a managed currency , a welfare system , a modern government , and financial management along Keynesian lines . They regarded ...
... politicians , and public servants ( including several of his students ) were creating a central bank with a managed currency , a welfare system , a modern government , and financial management along Keynesian lines . They regarded ...
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... political independence and economic separatism in the Empire could not be reversed . But as he argued in " Canada and the Monarchy " ( one of five articles he was asked to write for the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ...
... political independence and economic separatism in the Empire could not be reversed . But as he argued in " Canada and the Monarchy " ( one of five articles he was asked to write for the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ...
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... politicians . Instead of all the academic talk about social plans and social justice , let us cultivate those qualities that are as old as human nature and without which none can get along . ” Humour , lectures , teaching , and essays ...
... politicians . Instead of all the academic talk about social plans and social justice , let us cultivate those qualities that are as old as human nature and without which none can get along . ” Humour , lectures , teaching , and essays ...
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