Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Turner may be rich, intelligent and Catholic, but he isn't in the photograph with Prime Minister Pearson [April 14]. How can I convince my Canadian friends that Americans are knowledgeable about their politics when TIME can't tell a Turner from a Chrétien...
...CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that...
Although all three episodes pretend to be offering a mature view of a difficult time of life, only the central one, Genevieve, avoids being kid stuff. In it, two French Canadian girls travel to the winter carnival in Montreal. On the way Louise (Louise Marleau) shows some photographs of a young man to her friend Genevieve. His first name, she says, is Bernard; his last name is "hands off." But Genevieve can't keep her hands to herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold...
...ideas about the brain and its functions; Elizabeth T. McLaughlin, a study of the relationship between John Milton and the English romantics; Sonya Monosoff, two editions of Geminiani sonatas for publication and performance; Fredelle B. Maynard, a book of short stories and essays based on her childhood on the Canadian prairie and Janet L. Fisher, research in the field of category theory and its relevance to algebraic geometry...
...will handle matters concerning consumers and corporations. Turner will try and press through Parliament such potentially voter-pleasing legislation as greater protection for consumers against false labeling and full disclosure on the credit cost of installment sales. Rich, intelligent and Catholic, he is already being talked of in some Canadian political circles as a north-of-the-border John F. Kennedy. His job is ideal for a man in his stage of career, but he may not have time to grow into national importance before the day arrives to choose a new Liberal party leader. Pearson, who turns 70 later...