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“By the time Gilbert and Sullivan had worked together this long, they were only talking through lawyers” – Dan Needles, p. 49
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Like the rest of his generation, Environics co-founder and author
Michael Adams has no plans to spend his twilight years in a rocking chair
photo: lorne bridgman
When he was finishing his latest book, Stayin’ Alive,
the pollster and author Michael Adams (MA 1970)
was living the meat-in-the-sandwich lifestyle that
is currently the lot of countless middle-aged Canadians:
teens in high school, parents frail and dying. “A classic baby
boomer place,” as he puts it, sipping white wine in a favourite
haunt in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood. “This is the most
personal of all the books I have produced,” says Adams, “as it
is the story of me, my family and my friends.”
After completing it, Adams found himself wondering
whether Stayin’ Alive would become his swan song. It’s unlikely.
Adams, who has been tracking social values since 1983, still
seems far too engaged with the business of unearthing Canadian
public opinion to hang up the towel – a stance that >>>
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