Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada, where three out of every four magazines read by Canadians are imported from the U.S., a three-man Royal Commission has just submitted a report, proclaiming its "indispensable'' goal of creating a periodical press "directly responsible to Canada." It insists several times that it does not want to provide "a sanctuary for mediocrity" and is in no way influenced "by a spirit of anti-Americanism or of Canadian ultranationalism," and has no designs against freedom of the press. But it proposes, by rejuggling advertising rates and other punitive devices, to end the great popularity in Canada...
...While the Royal Commission report is ambiguous and contradictory on critical points, the clear intention seems to be to destroy TIME in Canada. We cannot believe that the Government would adopt such recommendations, or that the Canadian people would approve such action...
Over an early-morning beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
Although agricultural experts are still not certain just how the two chemicals do the delicate job of differentiating between wheat and weed, they are confidently predicting remarkable results. Some scientists expect the Canadian wheat crop alone to show an increase of 75 million bu. a year. And though both companies may sell more Avadex and Carbyne than any other herbicide ever made, some of their scientists suspect that they have opened the lid on a Pandora's box. Said one of them last week: "With a surplus of North American wheat right now, what are we going...
...novella, Lunar Caustic, set in the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and a full-length novel, October Ferry to Gabriola, about a guilt-haunted alcoholic, the latter work to be published in 1962. A couple of years ago, a longtime Lowry friend, Canadian Teacher Downie Kirk, salvaged a 3-ft. stack of manuscripts (poems, letters, stories, drafts of novels) from Lowry's British Columbia home, a squatter's cottage. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place is a collection of short stories that are not really stories but anarchic fragments...