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Partly because in the past he was denied financial backing by cautious Canadians, Taylor is impatient with both Canadian businessmen ("They've got to get off their duffs") and the new wave of Cana dian nationalism ("Have you ever heard of anything more outdated?"). A believer that older men should move on to new pastures to make way for bright younger men, he is ready to give up his four chairmanships at Argus (though probably not the presidency) when he reaches 65. Then he intends to turn his full attention to his first love: horses...
...fail to move the living world. The work, greatly planned, has been manfully done. That which slept has been awakened." There was almost unanimous praise for much of the swift, modern prose, for the clear insights of such passages as Christ's gentle rebuke to his mother at Cana, in John 2:4: "'Your concern, mother, is not mine,' " and for Christ's " reply 'Are in you the Mark King 15:2, of the when Jews?' Pilate " asks, and he answers: "'The words are yours.'"* Writing in the Guardian, Middleton...
...noisy protests from the opposition Liberals-possibly because it indicated that Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is in no hurry to call a general election. But the criticism was more in the nature of a traditional raspberry. The climate of opinion in Canada is such that anyone who proposes Cana-dianization as a cure-all for the nation's ills is on solid political ground...
...explanation had more to do with business than show. Toronto's O'Keefe Brewing Co.. having just completed a $12 million civic center for the performing arts, was willing to offer a sizable (exact amount undisclosed) slice of Cana dian bacon to get the right show for the center's dedication. Camelot, the 1960 reunion of My Fair Lady's family (Librettist Alan Jay Lerner, Composer Frederick Loewe, Director Moss Hart, Star Julie Andrews), was the obvious choice...
Inevitably, Paolino receives his own sexual initiation in the embrace of a simmering charmer named Stella L'Afri-cana, whose North African blood gives her skin the green-bronze hue of lava...