back powerful stuff. An expression that still
continues and remember the voice of Barbara
Frum. ‘Precisely, commented Jack Webster and
in many ways it’s kind of emotionally rough.
Reminding many of us are the voices of Tommy
Douglas, Lester Pearson, John Diefenbaker. They
point out possibly where we were in life,
whatever positions.
Perhaps we were learning to drive our parents
Pontiac, Ford, Chevrolet or Studebaker. Listen-
ing on the radio, hearing different political points
of view, whatever the situation. Recalling old
expressions like ‘I’m all shook up’ or ‘see you
later alligator’. ‘I’m so glad we had this time
together’, of course Carol Burnett. ‘That’s the
way it is’, Walter Cronkite on the Dominion radio
network of the CBC, you bet. Plus, a real
old-time ‘Bonanza’, Lorne Green doing Canada’s
national news many moons ago. Does that wet
your nostalgic appetite? A long time before
digital expressions like ‘real time’, ‘hard copy’
and ‘downloading’, most of us were used to black
and red ribbons on our Underwood and Royal
typewriters, learning to manually type. Never in
our dreams could we anticipate how someday
socially and technologically so much would be
changing and exponentially unfolding.