Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have seldom actually brought them down. Yet last week, in stable, bourgeois Belgium, the government was toppled by students at the University of Louvain, the world's largest Roman Catholic university. The students' weapon: a major exacerbation of the longtime tension between Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and its French-speaking Walloon minority...
Bottles & Songs. The ever-present rivalry had been comparatively quiescent during the two-year reign of Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants' center-right coalition government. Then Louvain's Flemish students, who make up 55% of the enrollment, demanded that the linguistically divided university be broken up and the French-speaking part moved into Wallonia (a linguistic frontier drawn up in 1963 places Louvain seven miles inside Flanders). Moving the French-speaking students and professors to Wallonia would cost an estimated $140 million and seriously damage the prestige and resources of the 543-year-old institution...
...Flemish students boycotted classes and took to the streets to riot in favor of their demands, hurling bottles, squirting fire extinguishers at French-speaking students and singing We Shall Overcome. While police turned fire hoses on the demonstrators, Louvain's governing board of bishops met and themselves divided along linguistic lines about the university's future. They turned the problem over to the government and, when eight Flemish ministers of Vanden Boeynants' moderate Christian Socialist Party threatened to resign unless the students got their way, Vanden Boeynants tried in vain for a compromise. When none could...
...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...
...Revolutionary War Pamphleteer Tom Paine. Last spring the Protestant-dominated Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed suit in U.S. district court to prevent the 1967 reissue, in a slightly larger version, of last year's Christmas stamp, a Madonna and Child portrait by 15th century Flemish Artist Hans Memling. The suit charged that O'Brien, a Roman Catholic, is, in effect, proselytizing for his faith...