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Digital Archives | May 22, 1960 | 27:45
Fighting Words: Is spying a necessary evil?
Today's argument: "Espionage is an unpleasant necessity."
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Dec 11, 1961 | 28:12Digital Archives Fighting Words: Are critics frustrated failures? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Are critics frustrated failures? Dec 11, 1961 | 28:12A touchy topic: "Critics are the men who have failed in literature and in art."
Apr 2, 1961 | 27:36Digital Archives Fighting Words: Talking about speaking VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Talking about speaking Apr 2, 1961 | 27:36Discuss: "Spare us the mischief unloosed by instructors of good speech."
Mar 19, 1961 | 27:48Digital Archives Fighting Words: The perils of independence VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: The perils of independence Mar 19, 1961 | 27:48Discuss: Giving independence to underdeveloped countries "is like the gift of a razor to a child."
Jun 19, 1960 | 27:23Digital Archives Fighting Words: Defending dirt and slamming smut VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Defending dirt and slamming smut Jun 19, 1960 | 27:23A dirty debate: "Defenders of the right to read cheap smut are the intellectuals who never read it."
May 22, 1960 | 27:45Digital Archives Fighting Words: Is spying a necessary evil? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Is spying a necessary evil? May 22, 1960 | 27:45Today's argument: "Espionage is an unpleasant necessity."
Jan 31, 1960 | 27:48Digital Archives Fighting Words: Is the CBC monopolizing Canada's intellectuals? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Is the CBC monopolizing Canada's intellectuals? Jan 31, 1960 | 27:48The argument: "Canadian intellectuals never crawl out of their ivory towers except to go on CBC panel shows."
Jan 17, 1960 | 28:00Digital Archives Fighting Words: A hip half-hour VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: A hip half-hour Jan 17, 1960 | 28:00Author Norman Mailer explains the philosophy of the hipster.
Mar 22, 1959 | 27:36Digital Archives Fighting Words: People still can't tell right from wrong? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: People still can't tell right from wrong? Mar 22, 1959 | 27:36Say what? "People today can't tell right from wrong in family behaviour and public morals."
Nov 12, 1957 | 20:51Digital Archives Trudeau and Levesque team up for Fighting Words AudioDigital Archives Trudeau and Levesque team up for Fighting Words Nov 12, 1957 | 20:51A radio game show tests Trudeau's knowledge of quotes.
Dec 9, 1956 | 28:24Digital Archives Fighting Words: Whither Montreal intellectuals? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Whither Montreal intellectuals? Dec 9, 1956 | 28:24A great debate: "The opinion that Montreal has a dazzling intellectual life is a myth."
Apr 15, 1956 | 28:37Digital Archives Fighting Words: Uncle Sam wants you… to like him? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Uncle Sam wants you… to like him? Apr 15, 1956 | 28:37The argument: Americans have "a deep desire to be liked and when they are not, they are shocked and very angry."
Sep 4, 1955 | 26:20Digital Archives Fighting Words: Was the bard a bigot? VideoDigital Archives Fighting Words: Was the bard a bigot? Sep 4, 1955 | 26:20Today's fighting words: "The Merchant of Venice is the most brutal and dramatic specimen of racial propaganda in the English language."
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