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...French dissatisfaction that Demagogue Caouette exploited was the feeling that French Canadians had been cheated out of their birthright. They thought, said Mike Pearson, that Confederation "meant partnership, not domination." but the result has been "an English-speaking Canada with a bilingual Quebec." In Ottawa, French-speaking civil servants are even required to write to each other in English-for ease of filing. Young French intellectuals bitterly call themselves the "white Negroes" of Canada. French Canadians outside Quebec, crusading for schooling in their own language, were recently told by a school trustee of one large Ontario city: "We have...
...grandly named the Amateur Brewers & Vintners Association, some 300 do-it-yourself braumeisters fired off a stiff protest to Welensky, pointing out that home brewing "has taken place in the United Kingdom for centuries, and as the British emigrated to the colonies, this tradition has been accepted as the birthright of the ordinary man by every government of the Commonwealth...
...weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer's. Faulkner began to survey his birthright in 1929, with his third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent knife-and gunfighter in the manner of Wild...
...endless as the past is inexhaustible--then Harvard is true to herself. Harvard flags when her teachers are tired and her students indifferent--when both have lost the one secret to critical success: I mean the nostalgia for a work of art, the hunger of one's literary birthright...
...some respects, Evtushenko and his followers resemble U.S. beatniks. But where U.S. beats glorify unwashedness, shook-up Soviet youth flaunts foppish clothes as the badge of their individualism. Russian youths crave the varied and permissive life that would be their birthright in the West. One of the most revealing, wistful expressions of Russian claustrophobia is a poem written by Evtu-shenko...