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...independentist argument--Levesque objects to the term 'separatist'--begins with the fact that Quebec is a distinct French and Catholic cultural entity or nation within Canada. It is a culture with a unique heritage that remains insulated from North American mass culture by its linguistic shell. The protection of this culture, and of the French language which serves as its medium, is understandably a major concern for Quebeckers, and for Prime Minister Levesque...
...developing his argument, he gives explicit encouragement to the pursuit of that bitch-goddess, success. As shown by the Harvard Grant Study, a long term evaluation of the adaptations to life of the "healthiest" white male members of the classes of 1939 to 1944, achieving the bitch-goddess does not necessarily correlate with important indices of growth and maturity...
...foreign policy. The problem is that the problems we're dealing with are so immensely complex. Quick solutions are not possible. People expect immediate successes and when that doesn't happen, criticism is bound to follow. People have got to recognize that these are terribly difficult, long-term problems. You've got to give necessary time to work through them and not stick down a thermometer each week and say: What in hell have you done this week? This is true on Panama. I think we are going to get a Panama Canal treaty, but this...
ENGAGED. Stuart Symington, 76, first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and telegenically handsome, four-term Democratic Senator from Missouri who, he said, graduated from politician to statesman when he retired in 1976; and Ann (Nancy) Hemingway Watson, 59, widow of Arthur K. Watson, an IBM executive and a son of its founding father. The wedding, in June, will be the second for each...
...format of his one-man show is somewhat constricting and deliberately artificial. John Gay, who devised the evening, has conceived it as a lecture delivered in Paris in 1899, a year before Wilde's death, and some time after he had been released from his two-year prison term in Reading Gaol...