#massey lectures

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George Steiner | Nostalgia for the Absolute

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The Story of (Mahmadi Mahke) Angelo Soliman  - Esi Edugyan - 2021 CBC Massey Lectures

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"...[a revolution of values] will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries and say: ‘This is not just.’ It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: ‘This is not just.’ The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: ‘This way of settling differences is not just.”

(Martin Luther King, Jr., from the 1967 Massey Lectures, titled Conscience for Change, collected in The Lost Massey Lectures, from House of Anansi Press. The quotation appears on page 186 of that edition.)

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1970s Massey Lectures: The Opening Words

Can you choose which of the 1970s CBC Massey Lectures began with each of the following sentences?

The first quiz (of three) that I posted in May of 2023 was the second in the Massey Lectures series!

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1960s Massey Lectures: The Opening Words

Can you choose which of the 1960s CBC Massey Lectures began with the following words?

My first non-hockey Sporcle quiz of 2023 appeared in February, and started a new little series (still ongoing) on the annual Massey Lectures, presented by the University of Toronto, the CBC, and House of Anansi Press.

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Ancient Wisdom and Knowledge, is it forever lost?

Ancient Wisdom and Knowledge, is it forever lost?

  There is a saying, ‘a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing’, it is derived from English poet Alexander Pope’s poem “A Little Learning”.  The earliest known printing of the poem is 1709. For the full poem click here: https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm.  I think of this after reading the CBC Massey Lectures, a collection of five lectures entitled “The…

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Brilliant storytelling and lecture by national treasure Thomas King.

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Winter: Five Windows on the Season (CBC Massey Lecture)

Adam Gopnik

“If we didn’t remember winter in spring, it wouldn’t be as lovely; if we didn’t think of spring in winter, or search winter to find some new emotion of its own to make up for the absent ones, half of the keyboard of life would be missing. We would be playing life with no flats or sharps, on a piano with no black keys.”

Adam Gopnik’s beautiful love letter to winter’s splendor and significance: