Word: continentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canadians know what they are not-not U.S.-American, not British, not French-but they do not seem to know what they are. They suffered from an identity crisis well before modern novelists discovered the condition, and their sense of no-self could fill half a dozen Antonioni movies. "We...
Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned...
As for himself, Getty reported that he has driven nothing but Cadillacs since 1916. At present, his two chauffeurs care for a 1967 model on the Continent and a 1960 one (with 35,000 miles on the odometer) in England.
AFRICA looms big, beautiful and relatively inexpensive for voyagers who hanker for some spoon-fed adventure. In Nairobi, a visitor can step off an airplane and, within ten minutes by car, be in the wilds of the Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel...
Obscurity--obscurantism, if you will--began to creep in, it seems to me, towards the end of the last century: as the task of rounding out our territory on this continent was completed, as the frontier disappeared, as those dangers of new European activity in the New World that had...