Word: quiets
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Although nationalism itself is as old as French Canada, its vehicle of expression has only recently become the provincial state. Traditionally, the dominant Catholic Church has been a far more important guardian of French Canadian cultural integrity than any government. But with Quebec's historic Quiet Revolution during the 1960s, which freed the state from the control of the Church and produced for the first time in the province's history a modern secular bureaucracy, the focus of nationalist sentiments finally shifted to the provincial government. In so doing, Quebeckers redefined the nationalist question in political and independentist terms...
...important contemporary source of nationalism is the provincial civil service. Created rapidly during the Quiet Revolution, it has channelled the empire-building impulse common to most bureaucracies in a nation-building direction. Because of the language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...
Uniformed police stood both inside and outside the locked doors of University and Massachusetts Halls. The mood in University Hall was quiet as three policemen guarded the southeast door, the building's only unlocked entrance, and barred all access to the building...
...Quiet, thin, dressed in a conservative pinstriped suit, Kurt Groenewold hardly looks the part of a firebrand lawyer who would conspire with West German terrorists to bring down the state. But Groenewold is now on trial himself in a Hamburg courtroom for "supporting a criminal organization" and furthering the plots of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, which has wreaked havoc in West Germany for a decade. As Groenewold nervously shuffles papers, his own lawyer politely debates procedural points with the prosecutors. No one shouts obscenities; the tone is orderly and low-key, punctuated only by an occasional muffled cheer from...
...logs more hours in the batting cage than Stenhouse. His low key demeanor belies his flamboyant brinksmanship at the plate. Harvard pitcher Steve Baloff calls him "sudden Sten" because "I'll be quiet and then...