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The difficulty is that Trudeau and Lévesque differ 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...

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

As permissiveness spread, Westerners felt less need to travel to India to shed inhibitions with spiritual sanction. So the swami of sex began tailoring his program to the psychospiritual circuit, catering to graduates of the "human potential" movement who felt that the movement's potential-and their own-had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Sir at Esalen East | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Kerry Konrad's Loeb production of Marat/Sade uses the same technique. From the moment the house opens, the actors are on stage, ad-libbing their roles as mental patients. Marat/Sade is perhaps the ultimate play-within-a-play, with the inmates of an insane asylum outside Paris portraying the assassination...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Political Asylum | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

The Marquis de Sade was convinced that the French Revolution was a mistake. Or at least that seems to be the explanation behind that notorious writer's decision to stage a mock murder of one of the revolution's leaders in 'The persecution and assasination of Jean-Paul Marat as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heartening Handful | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

The Marquis de Sade was convinced that the French Revolution was a mistake. Or at least that seems to be the explanation behind that notorious writer's decision to stage a mock murder of one of the revolution's leaders in "The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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