Word: trudeaumania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly the "Trudeaumania" that swept Canada with Trudeau's election in 1968 has withered. When they put him in office, Canadians thought that they were getting a lively Kennedy-like leader, and for a while he did not disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons...
...shopping center near Toronto last week, a young girl burst through the security guard around Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 53, and planted a kiss on his cheek. Another woman on the fringe of the crowd gushed: "He still has the aura." It was hard to believe that Trudeaumania-as Canadians called their particular political fervor four years ago-was again sweeping the land. But at the weary end of a seven-week campaign leading up to next week's national election, it was evident that Canadians were still fascinated with their Prime Minister...