The Canadian journalist and broadcaster who crossed paths with McLuhan on the CBC — remembered by Bob for a quip about McLuhan and for the c.1962 news segment where McLuhan glossed the twist dance. New to it — start with dialogue 25.
Across the dialogues
Enters through a quip — Fulford's line that "McLuhan was an Eskimo," folded into the reading of Trump as trickster
Bob relays Fulford's quip — McLuhan "an Eskimo" — folded into the reading of Trump as a trickster who caught McLuhan's Playboy-interview aspects.
"said that McLuhan was an Eskimo"
The CBC evening-news segment — McLuhan reading the twist dance as a "Cape Canaveral Caper"
Bob recalls a c.1962 CBC segment with Fulford where McLuhan read the twist as a "Cape Canaveral Caper" — dancers spinning out to unwind after a day of role-play.
"Cape Canaveral Caper"
The Eskimo quip fleshed out — the 1967 article dated and praised, set beside Best Seat in the House, and weighed down by a double verdict, Bob's "bad student of Northrop Frye" and the shared line that Fulford led "a mediocre cult"
The 1967 label given its due — Bob reads "Eskimo" as an apt name for a McLuhan "not limited to his culture," who intuited "primitive" life through Carpenter's Arctic fieldwork, even as he and Cameron dismiss Fulford himself as "a bad student of Northrop Frye."
"Robert Fulford called McLuhan an Eskimo."
Connections
On a c.1962 CBC evening-news segment with Fulford, McLuhan glossed the twist as a "Cape Canaveral Caper."