Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That eminent sport psychologist and voyager Casey Stengel once analyzed the Canadian scene: "Well, you see they have those polar bears up there and lots of fellows trip over them trying to run the bases and they're never much good anymore except for hockey or hunting deer...
Second Words, Atwood's selected essays from 1960 to the present, span the growth of her consciousness of injustice and her defense against growing attacks. Some of the battles she fought, as recounted in the book's second section--which she dubs "Dugout"--may seem remote to the non-Canadian reader in the present, as may some of the poetry reviewed in Atwood's early years, under the title "Rooming House." The shorthand, completely personal references ("Rooming House," she says, "runs from 1960 to 1971, during which I moved about fifteen times, always to places with a lot of stairs...
...Second Words, when she offers an analytic generality it is almost slipped in sideways, a manner well-suited to her ability to remain ironically outside the usual conventions of a critical essay. In a 1973 review of the Canadian poet John Newlove, she crashes defiantly to the point...
...accessible and simultaneously so rich. Time after time, the reader's jolt of recognition and pleasure comes from one simple fact: Atwood expresses herself so well. As with her novels, one reads her essays with a pen nearby, constantly jotting down some spark of truth: she offers several epigrams. "Canadian-Arherican Relations Surviving the Eighties" (1981) contains the following aside...
...course, the Columbia University professor has to take a few digs at Harvard. Cambridge City cop Pete Grandeville notes early on that "there was at least one French Canadian from North Cambridge who had a touch of class and a Harvard-caliber brain." "Since Pete had not been expecting to leave the tense intellectual environment of Harvard all day, he was delighted to encounter someone who was both relaxed and willing to tell him interesting things," the author remarks later. Columbia University is significantly absent from the novel...