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storyteller: the way they were….
From a Rick Salutin piece that appeared in the Toronto Star. I am barely old enough to remember this comedy duo written about by the author but I remember sensing their spirit, vulnerability, insecurity, defiance and basic goodness that made … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur goldreich, Constance Rourke, denis goldberg, emmanuel levinas, joseph heath, Martin Buber, Nicolas Poussin, nikolai leskov, Rembrandt, Rick Salutin, the avalanches frontier psychologist, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, wayne and shuster
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JUST KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YELLOW SNOW
Canada… the true north…..Wikileaks….It must be something in the water, and Canadians don’t want Americans drinking it or sharing it … “A few acres of snow” – “Quelques arpents de neige”- is a quotation from Voltaire popularly understood to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Mayeda, Andy Riga, Bruce Arthur National Post, Dan Gardner Ottawa Citizen, Daniel Francis, Dave Pugliese, George Woodcock, Julie Spergel, Laura Spergel, Michael Greenstein, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Kinsley Washington Post, Mordecai Richler, Mordechai Richler, Northrop Frye, Patrick Douglass Cox, Patrick Hennessy Telegraph, Rob Ford Toronto mayor, Roy MacGregor Globe and Mail, Sander L. Gilman, Stephen Duckett, Susan Delacourt, Tony Clement, Voltaire Candide, wayne and shuster
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CASEY AT THE PLATE: BATTER UP IN BABYLON
Gambling, like pornography, has somehow arranged itself to be completely normalized; an integral element in our service based economy. It is still on the margins of acceptable discourse at the Sunday family supper, sort of doing a limbo under the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott and Costello, Abner Doubleday, Arnold Rothstein, Bernard Malamud, Branch Rickey, Cap Anson, Daniel E. Ginsburg, Ernest Becker, Ernest L. Thayer, Helena Blavatsky, Howard Rosenberg, Jackie Robinson, James Lincoln Ray, John Cahill, Mark Newman, Mike Bauman, Peter Toms, Roy Hobbs, Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Shakespeare, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Viktor Frankl, wayne and shuster, William Randolph Hearst, William Shakespeare
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