On Canada
In his fifty-year career, Frank Underhill has contributed a great deal to freeing Canada from its colonial past. He has acted the part of a gadfly, incessantly stinging Canadians for their complacency, and has been the master of metaphor and the ironical use of cliché in his lecture and broadcasts, essays and book reviews. His clarity and cool wit are often devastating in their penetration, and he...
In his fifty-year career, Frank Underhill has contributed a great deal to freeing Canada from its colonial past. He has acted the part of a gadfly, incessantly stinging Canadians for their complacency, and has been the master of metaphor and the ironical use of cliché in his lecture and broadcasts, essays and book reviews. His clarity and cool wit are often devastating in their penetration, and he...