Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada Temperance Act, passed by Parliament in 1878, is memorable largely because it has managed to survive so long. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, championed it only to prove a constitutional point-that such an important responsibility was a federal rather than a provincial right. (For himself, Sir John A. was no bluenose. Scathingly denounced by Liberal George Brown's Toronto Globe for his drinking, he retorted at an election rally: "I know you would rather have John A. drunk than George Brown sober...
...album cover is a red sticker emblazoned with the record pitchman's call: "30 Complete Selections on 2 LPs, Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...
...middle culture is mass culture with a fig leaf," he continued, "While it pleases a crowd, it has high cultural pretensions." MacDonald cited the Saturday Review, Herman Wouk's novels, J.B., and his own New Yorker as examples of "midcult...
...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...
...produce a living art, instead of a passive acceptance of "great names," America must separate its high and middle cultures, MacDonald warned. "Let the majority eavesdrop if they wish," he said, "but their tastes in art should be ignored...