Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - 230 sider MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... called it figger ) with a pince - nez perched on a big nose broken when he raced penny - farthing bicycles as a young man ( he called them bye - cycles ) . He was a popular man , who walked everywhere with a cane that he swung ...
... called it figger ) with a pince - nez perched on a big nose broken when he raced penny - farthing bicycles as a young man ( he called them bye - cycles ) . He was a popular man , who walked everywhere with a cane that he swung ...
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... called The Happy Gang : If you're happy and healthy To heck with being wealthy So be happy with the Happy Gang ! followed by the Dominion Observatory official time signal , then the BBC news . Then soap operas ; wholesome and innocent ...
... called The Happy Gang : If you're happy and healthy To heck with being wealthy So be happy with the Happy Gang ! followed by the Dominion Observatory official time signal , then the BBC news . Then soap operas ; wholesome and innocent ...
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... called Symphony Hall , and when they heard the way I spoke they thought of classical music . So I did that . To fill ... called himself " Long John Corrigan " and specialised in country - and - western music , with a religious sub ...
... called Symphony Hall , and when they heard the way I spoke they thought of classical music . So I did that . To fill ... called himself " Long John Corrigan " and specialised in country - and - western music , with a religious sub ...
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adventure American announcer asked ball batsman beach became boys British broadcast called Canadian CFRA Christopher Robin CJCH Copperfield cricket culture Dalhousie dark David Copperfield disc jockey Dylan Thomas Eliot emotions England English eyes father feel felt French gave German Gin Fizz Halifax Hamlet harbour hear heard heart Hugh imagination King knew language later listen lived look MacNeil meaning memory mind morning mother moved naval Navy never night Northwest Arm Nova Scotia Othello Ottawa Oxner play pleasure poem poet Point Pleasant Park radio RCMP realise rhythm ROBERT MACNEIL Shakespeare ship smell someone sound South Park speech stories Street summer T. S. Eliot talk taste television theatre things thought thrilled took trees voice walked wicket winter words writing young
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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse Gisli Palsson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |