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Marshall McLuhan, 1911–1980.
Award-winning poet, music critic, and literary journalist Judith Fitzgerald began her career in the early 1980s as an Entertainment writer with The Globe and Mail (where her work earned the Fiona Mee Literary Journalism Award). Her poetry, reviews, profiles, interviews, criticism, editorials, features, and columns have been published in numerous national and international anthologies, periodicals, journals, and newspapers.
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Elsie is extremely ambitious; Herb is not. Elsie wants to beautify the Gertrude Street dwelling; Herb is content to live within its walls exactly as it is. Elsie wants to be the first on the block to own a car; Herb never owns one in his life. The stylish Elsie is, in short, a woman; the casual Herb, as she tells the boys in mean-spirited disgust for her husband’s disinterest in all things fashionable, is not a man.
Herb, a maddeningly mild-mannered and agreeable man, is happy to sit back and shoot the breeze. He loves his sons very much and spends long hours with them, delighting in their intellectual progress and generally staying out of harm’s way. One game the trio particularly enjoys involves finding, learning, and memorizing the meanings of the most difficult words in the dictionary, a daily habit his firstborn, now a self-described “intellectual thug,” adopts for life.
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