Word: montreal
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Most behavioral scientists agree with University of Montreal Criminologist Ezzat Abdel Fattah, who contends that "there are people who attract the criminal as the lamb attracts the wolf." Some of these victims are masochistic or depressed; Criminologist Hans von Hentig described them as longing "lustfully" for injury...
...regular peak-season "economy" prices. Now there are reports that the "big four"-Pan Am, TWA, Air Canada and Britain's BOAC-will quit IATA if the cartel does not approve even broader price reductions for people of all ages at its annual meeting this week in Montreal...
...hero of this splendidly mordant, funny novel is Jake Hersh, a ghetto-liberated Jew from Montreal who, at 37, revels in the expatriate life of London, earns considerable wealth and fame as a TV and film director, still loves his shiksa wife of ten years, but has a bothersome question: "Why am I being allowed to enjoy myself...
...carries out the investigation with unflagging scatological zest and a deadly, unsparing eye. At the London film colony's weekly softball game, the players' first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper...
Horseman offers the secondary pleasure of watching a writer just as he is hitting full stride. Richler, who was born in Montreal, is one of Canadian culture's leading unrepentant truants. He has written five previous novels. Their themes range from sociopolitical consciousness (The Acrobats) through pungently realistic picaresques of Montreal Jewish life (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) to outrageous expatriate satire (Cocksure). Finally, at 40, Richler has brought all these strains together. The result is a resounding war cry, love song and apologia for the fundamentally decent man who can fumble through the depravity of the times...