Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the...
"There is a part of me that still believes in permanent revolution," Charlotte Bunch, a leading feminist publisher and the author of "Lesbianism and the Women's Movement," told an all-female audience at Agassiz House yesterday.
"It is not feasible to build revolution against the Shah in the United States. It is feasible to expose Iranian repression here and build pressure to end support for that regime," he said.
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...
An 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...