首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Leacock was probably the first Canadian to qualify as a "pro-American British imperialist." A colleague, Prof. John Culliton, sa
Leacock was probably the first Canadian to qualify as a "pro-American British imperialist." A colleague, Prof. John Culliton, sa
admin
2010-06-18
46
问题
Leacock was probably the first Canadian to qualify as a "pro-American British imperialist." A colleague, Prof. John Culliton, said of him, "Long before Winston Churchill, Leacock was saving the Empire every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 p.m. in Room 20." He was also ahead of his time in prodding Americans anti BriTons toward greater friendship and understanding.
His feeling for both sides of the Atlantic came naturally. He was born on the Isle of Wight in 1869, and emigrated to Canada as a six-year-01d. On his retirement from McGill, influential English friends urged him to return to live in the land of his birth. He refused, saying, "I’ d hate to be so far away from the United States. It’s second nature, part of Our lives, to be near them. Every Sunday morning we read the New York funny papers. All week we hear about politics in Alabama and Louisiana, and whether they caught the bandits who stole the vault of the National Bank — well, you know American news. There’s no other like it."
In the eight years of his retirement, Stephen produced the work he believed most likely to endure. It was far removed from the kind of wit which had made him famous. He described his history, Montreal: Seaport and City, as "the best job I’ve done." Unlike most historical works it bubbles with the author’ s laughter. In his foreword, after thanking two former colleagues for checking the manuscript, he added that any errors which remained obviously must be theirs. "Acknowledging these debts," he concluded, "I also feel that I owe a good deal of this book to my own industry and effort."
Midway through World War II, I asked Stephen if he would write a foreword for a book I had written on the Canadian navy and its gallant role in convoy escort. He agreed. Some time later he handed me more than 20,000 words, in which he had told the whole fascinating background story of Canada’s lifelong relationship to the sea. His research was staggering to a reporter who had simply described events and engagements to which he had been an eyewitness.
"I got interested in the subject," he explained. "If you don’t like it, throw it away and I’ll write something shorter."
Not a word was changed. To my joy, the book appeared under our joint by-lines. Soon after, throat cancer took Stephen from the thousands of Old McGillers who loved him.
Leacock loved human beings for their little vanities and pretensions — and laughed at his own. The fictional town of Mariposa of his famous "Sunshine Sketches" is obviously Orillia,
Ontario, where Leacock built a summer home and developed a farm, which, he said, "used to lose a few dollars a year, but by dint of hard work and modernization, I have contrived to’ turn that into a loss of thousands." The citizens of Orillia had tittle difficulty in self-identification when the book reached town, but they soon realized that Leacock had ribbed his own idiosyncrasies more sharply than he had pinpointed theirs. Today’s Orillians speak of him with the awe giyen to any community’s adopted son, though it was he who adopted Mariposa-OriUia.
Stephen Leacock was so honestly simple that to many men he seemed to be a mass of complexities. To the world he remains the man of laughter. His greatest achievement, however, was that he taught thousands of young men and women to want to know. By example he proved one simple fact to all of us who attended his classes, certainly to that numerous crew who came to enjoy his friendship — that the right ofoutspoken dissent is the free man’s most precious heritage. Such men do not often pass this way.
The author was probably ______.
选项
A、a historian
B、a reporter
C、Leacock’ s colleague
D、a Navy officer
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/4q3YFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
LincolnexpectedthatAmericawouldbecomeanationdoubtfulaboutitsheroesanditshistory.Inhisastonishingaddresstothe
NapoleonwaswrongwhenhedismissedtheBritishasanationofshopkeepers(andhenceunfittodefeatFranceinwar).Compared
Fromitsbirth,threepowerfulimageshavecolouredideasofwhattheUnitedStateswasandwhatitstoodfor.Onewas"acityo
Fiftyyearsago,RobertSolowpublishedthefirstoftwopapersoneconomicgrowththateventuallywonhimaNobelprize.Celebr
Howisurbanizationnegativelyaffectingoursociety?Theanswertothisquestionisnotasimpleone.Urbanism【C1】______,polit
Goodmorning.Thediscussiontopicfortoday’sseminaris"HomelessnessinAmerica."IntheUnitedStates,homelessnesshas【C1】
Globalwarming?Youmayacceptorrejectthosewhosayitisadangerousphenomenon.Butiftheplanetiswarming,andhumanity
Duringthepastcentury,duetoavarietyoffactors,morethan1,000oftheworld’slanguageshavedisappeared,anditispossi
ThelargestandsmalleststatesoftheUnitedStatesare______.
______hasbecometheworld’slargestexporteroffish.
随机试题
记账凭证也是编制会计报表的直接依据。()
党在过渡时期总路线的核心内容是“一化三改”,其中“一化”是指【】
下列可释放血小板激活因子的细胞应除外()
根据票据法律制度的规定,下列各项中,属于无效支票的有()。
罚金刑的适用方式是()。
该企业2014年四个季度同比产量增长速度最大的是()。
2005年2月24日,新华社受权全文播发了《国务院关于鼓励支持和引导个体私营等非公有制经济发展的若干意见》;2005年10月,党的十六届五中全会通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十一个五年规划的建议》提出要大力发展个体、私营等非公有制经济。我国鼓
如果我们必须用一句话给免疫系统下个定义,答案一定是“识别非我的机制”。这是免疫系统最核心的部分,其余的东西,比如抗体的形成或者巨噬细胞消灭敌人的能力,都必须建立在这个机制之上。换句话说,只要生命体能够将敌人辨认出来,剩下的事情就好办了,目前医学界遇到的最难
主存地址寄存器MAR的位数与下列哪个寄存器相同?()。
计算恒定刺激法实验结果的方法有()
最新回复
(
0
)