Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disdain for the Flesh. Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who came to Canada in 1899 and now number some 14,000 strong. Believing that man owes his only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their...
Rebelling against Canadian efforts to make them pay taxes, relinquish their squatters' rights and send their children to school, the Freedomites embarked on a career of terrorism. During the past 40 years, they have been held accountable for 1,112 "depredations" ranging from blowing up power pylons and railroad bridges to planting ingenious booby traps in cigarette packs, which are then dropped in non-Doukhobor towns. All told, the Freedomite terrorists have caused $20 million in damage and taken 20 lives...
...article went on to say, "Most of the Harvard students agreed that the Canadian situation does not affect them immediately, and they, therefore, are not too interested in it." One Radcliffe student, the article added, had brought along some library books about Canada, but did not read them. Another Cliffe was reported to have said that she had not read the "boring" assigned material on Canada in one of her courses...
Nigro added that while American and Canadian students differed on some issues personal contacts in Toronto were friendly and disagreements "were on the intellectual level...
...Canadian students will be in Cambridge from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon. During their stay there will be a panel dischasion concerning student rights and responsibilities and the Free Speech Movement. Dean Monro, Daniel C. Goldfarb '66, chairman of the HUC, and Paul Seabury, visiting professor from Berkeley, will be on the panel...