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...ideologically at odds with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson and other Quebecois who want a quasi-independent status for the French-speaking province. Trudeau strongly opposes French separatism and argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also opposes economic nationalism and any strict limits on U.S. investment in Can ada, believes only that there should be guidelines to prevent U.S. and other foreign investment from undermining Canada's political independence...
When he arrived back in Canada, Trudeau drifted from job to job, editing a political science magazine, teaching constitutional law at the University of Montreal and acting as a labor lawyer. Then, three years ago, he entered politics and won a parliamentary seat from an English-speaking constituency in Montreal. "After 15 years in the role of critic," he explained, "I think it's time to go out and try to do the job myself...
...despite his playboy reputation-maintained an ascetic devotion to work. He drafted massive criminal code reforms, liberalizing divorce and abortion laws and legalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults. He also drew up most of the agenda for last February's constitutional conference in Ottawa, aimed at resolving French-English differences...
...title character, Hyman Kaplan (Tom Bosley), is likable even though he is an outrageous showoff. To him and to the other immigrants attending a night-school class in Americanization, the English language is a terrifying octopus at which they slash, tentacle by tentacle, in a melee of dialect comedy and amusing linguistic boners. Kaplan is in a one-man class by himself. If the teacher, an earnest young Ivy League graduate named Mr. Parkhill (Gary Krawford) rebukes him, Kaplan rebukes right back. Kaplan answers twice as many questions as are ever asked, and holds the attention of his fellow class...
Most of the credit goes to Oxford's Nevill Coghill, the English literature professor who has long coached the university's famed Dramatic Society and recently directed several highbrow commercial productions, including the Burton-Taylor movie of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (TIME, Feb. 23). Four years ago, Coghill dramatized his 1951 edition of the Tales to celebrate the 650th anniversary of Oxford's Exeter College; then a record company commissioned some music from Composers Richard Hill and John Hawkins to go along with a recorded version. The Hill-Hawkins blend of medieval piety and modern...