No No Alison --
>The sort of comedy Gogol wrote so well.
>The cringe is alive and well, but has mutated to a different kind of
>nationalistic pusillaminity - what Barrie Kosky once called the
>"world class" syndrome (if you believe the newspapers we have "world
>class" cities, theatre, architecture, everything else, but it's only
>those who feel provincial who need to say so).
That term ('worldclass') is copywrite Toronto, I'm sure of it. <g>
Do you know one of our pots once said *he'd" come up with the term
'cultural cringe,' but that was only after he'd met his Australian wife, so
I never believed him...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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University of Alberta
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he said the President said
he would not kill anyone
anymore and the way he would not kill
would be to let the killers kill
and then he would not be a killer
Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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