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...totally on the means to prevent the assimilation of the French?a problem that has dogged Canada ever since British General James Wolfe ended French rule in Quebec with his victory over the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. For Trudeau, the safeguarding of the Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois can be maîtres chez nous (masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...allegro dancing wasn't enough. I had a kind of breakthrough a year ago. But my arms can still be lifeless. My head is not always right." She has been teaching her role in Emeralds to Ghislaine Thesmar, a French ballerina who is as elegant in a Gallic way as Ashley is in her very American style. "Ghislaine's arms are romantic and fluid," muses Ashley. "I just don't have that quality yet." She is right. But the odds are that she will find her own equivalent-or know the reason why. Her goals are strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Boys and Girls, but Not Together | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...millions with tingling memories of the rites and delights of other nations' tables. Julia Child's 1961 book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her superbly low-key, artfully maladroit TV demonstrations were immensely influential in persuading her fellow citizens that serious cuisine is not some kind of Gallic voodoo but rather the art of the eminently possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love in the Kitchen | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Michel Bourdin, 35, who as the renowned chef of London's venerated Connaught Hotel has consummated a happy marriage of Gallic savoir and Anglo fare: "The secret of good cooking is not concocting elaborate dishes. Choose fresh things and learn how to bring out their taste. But you must personalize the dish. Cooking is a way of giving and of making yourself desirable. So do it simply, unelaborately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Tips from the Toques | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...becoming a European commentator for ABC News. Salinger concedes that he might have taken a post in the early Carter Administration if one had been offered, but he now concludes that his new life in Paris is too good to leave. "What the hell," he says with a Gallic shrug, "I have the best job in the world." He is also fond of quoting an earlier American in Paris, Thomas Jefferson, who once remarked: "Every man has two countries-his own and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Our Man in Paris | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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