Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement made it clear that De Gaulle was not about to apologize to his Canadian hosts or even appear contrite for the clamor he raised with his call for a Quebec libre. Well aware that his new statement would only keep the hassle alive, he said with a kind of wistful pride: "It's always been like that." Lest any of his ministers had forgotten, he then recalled the brouhahas of other days-from his refusal to meet F.D.R. after the Yalta Conference in 1945 to his recognition of Red China in 1964. The Canadian government, however, refused...
...cast of characters took part in one of the most extraordinary Cabinet meetings in French history. Such eminent scholars as Novelist Andre Malraux, Law Professor Edgar Faure and Poetry Anthologist Georges Pompidou had to sit in solemn silence while the general delivered himself of his peculiarly Gallic version of Canadian history...
Wistful Pride. France had founded Canada, said De Gaulle, and "alone for 21 centuries had administered, populated and developed" the country. After the English conquest came "a century of oppression." Now, in the second century of British rule, the French Canadian minority "still has not been assured in their own country of liberty, equality and fraternity...
Weinberger of Ottawa once shielded himself with a sheet of nylon and let a Canadian soldier jab at him with a bayonet. Anyone would have thought him mad. But the bayonet scarcely dented the fabric...
...which employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95), the novel is Beardsley's pornographic retelling of the Tannhauser legend. Beardsley never completed the book, but the final quarter has been written according to his plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that "the prose may be imitated but never the drawings." He is right. The text is less remarkable than the illustrations-among them a portrait of Venus in a startling likeness...