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...separatism? Why now? For the Parti Québécois, the answer is simple logic: a people with a common language, customs and culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a political state, most certainly a state of mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens...
...took the opportunity to drop out. Lévesque, who speaks a fine, colloquial English, worked in Europe as a broadcaster with the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II, and for Canadian radio in Korea. Afterward, he quickly became Quebec's most popular television newsman. Lévesque first...
...emotional energy from one of Quebec's poorest farming regions. His manner is shy and self-deprecating. While Trudeau's speeches are structured and formal, Lévesque's are extemporaneous, meandering marvels that somehow manage to reduce complex abstractions to simple?often too simple?terms. He is extraordinarily popular with his constituents; polls show that Lévesque would be overwhelmingly re-elected today...
...felt the other participants would be too moderate and partly because they were miffed that the meeting did not take place in Baghdad. Then it appeared that Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi was also staying home; he finally showed up a day late, as did George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...best taking unsentimental trips back to home territory, exploring the dead ends and defeats of middle-class life in a song like Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, a melancholy, hard-driving chronicle of the battered future of high school sweethearts Brenda and Eddie, "the popular steadies/ And the king and the queen/ of the prom...