Word: provinciale
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For three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of...
That time is far back, of course. America, in its eager embrace of the new, industrialized and academized the idea of avant-garde production so long ago that the notion of an unpopular, provincial Modernism seems remote. But 60 years ago it was very much a fact. In 1932 a...
AUSTRIA. Exactly the opposite is true here, where Jorg Haider, an articulate young (43) David Duke look-alike, is smooth enough to be described as a "yuppie fascist." Last summer he declared that the Nazis "had a proper employment policy in the Third Reich," then had to resign his provincial...
In American mythology, Pearl Harbor still represents, even after a half- century, a classic moment of treachery and betrayal. Certainly it was a moment of historic surprise, a moment when the impossible happened, when warfare suddenly spread, for the first and only time in history, to virtually the whole world...
Jorg Haider will not say he is antiforeigner, but rather that he is "native- friendly." Semantics aside, what Haider stands for is abundantly clear to the Viennese, who last week gave his far-right Freedom Party 22.6% of the vote in provincial elections. So popular was Haider's proposal for...