It's almost Biblical. Roy Daniells, of the bushy eyebrows, begat George [Woodcock] and Earle [Birney] and Sandra [Djwa] and Bill [New] and a host of others at UBC's English Department where mantles of influence are passed ever so slowly, from Daniells (1902-1979) on down. In Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells (UTP $55) former Roy Daniells student Sandra Djwa recalls, among 474 pages, that when a young professor tagged Daniells as anti-Semitic and accused him of running his department meetings like a Nuremberg rally, the UBC autocrat shouted, "Put that down in the minutes!"; Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells was awarded the Lorne Pierce medal for biography from the Royal Society of Canada.
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