Word: secessionism
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Hopper belonged to the first generation of artists whose work voted for secession from Paris. In 1927 he stated his belief that "now or in the near future"-the caution was typical of the man-"American art should be weaned from its French mother." But by the end of the...
The final secession by the old Cantabrigians came in December, 1842, when some of them petitioned the state legislature to separate them from East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Rebuffed by the state, they took the issue to town meeting, where representatives of all three areas combined to scrap the plan.
Similar scenes were taking place elsewhere in the country as workers scrambled to form the independent unions they had been promised by the government in a series of extraordinary strike settlements. Negotiated separately in Gdansk, Szczecin and Jastrzebie, the accords had ended the country's major strikes after two...
If Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free...
"Until next time"--the phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but...