Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian manufacturers go ahead with the filter, they will pay a penny a pack in royalties to a new charitable foundation established by Strickman and headed by Robert A. Katz, secretary and counsel of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. Besides advance payments of $200,000 apiece, royalties from the two companies could eventually amount to $5,000,000 a year. And because Strickman refuses to grant exclusive licenses, the foundation could still hope to reap far bigger returns from any-or all-of the leading U.S. cigarette companies. Even Columbia would not be left out in the cold. Though...
...Stick Your Neck Out, Mordecai Richler's 1963 satirical novel, an Eskimo conquers the demi-world of Canadian intellectuals and literally loses his head on a quiz show that plays for keeps. Cocksure trades in the same buffoonery of annihilation and, like its predecessor, scores easily on some already heavily dented targets: big business, the communications industry, pop culture, organized morality, modern education...
Comic Irony. Richler, 37, a Canadian who now earns his chips in London as a TV and film writer, delivers his blue bits with the relish of a nightclub comic shocking an audience of miniskirted grandmothers. It is totally irrelevant that the setting of the novel is England; despite its slapstick, Cocksure is well within the American mode of contemporary black humor that U.S. Critic Kenneth Burke has called "the drastic irony of paranoia...
Between the abundant yuks and cackles squirms the sadistic little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony...
...Nationals, which no Harvard man has taken since Germain G. Glidden '36. Peter Martin of McGill eliminated the Indian in the second round of that tournament this year, yet Nayar had beaten Martin three times earlier during the season. One of those times was at the Canadian Nationals, which Nayar won, and where Colin Adair, the man who took the U.S. Nationals, was eliminated before the finals...