Word: canadianization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Canadian Author Margaret Atwood's sixth novel will remind most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That can hardly be helped. Any new fictional account of how things might go horribly wrong risks comparisons either with George Orwell's classic or with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To a remarkable degree, these two books have staked out the turf of contemporary antiutopias. Which punishment is it to be this time? Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression...
Wade Davis, a 28-year-old Canadian pursuing a Ph.D. in Harvard's Biology Department, discovered a rare Haitian drug that can actually turn people into zombies by lowering their metabolic rates to make them appear dead...
Jernigan's innate athletic talent made him a prodigy. Only four months after learning the game--completely on his own--Jernigan reached the semifinals at the Junior Nationals at Princeton and the Canadian Nationals...
...program boasts such famous alumni as San Antonio Mayor Henry G. Cisneros, President of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid, and former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Over the years one fourth of the cabinet ministers of Singapore have made the trek to Cambridge, Miller claims...
...Ottawa native competed in the top-ranked position for the National Canadian Women's Squash Team in the World Championships at Australia in 1983. Last August she played in the third-ranked position, contributing to the Canadians' best-ever finish of fifth place at the World Championships held at Dublin...