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Naval officials here expressed skepticism over Flintstong's story, but refused to confirm or deny the possibility that the alien submarine might have been manned by French Canadian rather than Soviets, as had previously been assumed. "Everyone's under suspicious," commented Capt. Sven Jorgansfut...
...four, all independent-minded women of Irish descent who wear civilian clothes and have unquestionably been somewhat at odds with the parish's predominantly French Canadian clergy, decided to fight. "I won't quietly fold my tent and go away," snapped Sister Catherine. Under the contracts that they had signed along with the lay teachers, the nuns insisted, they were entitled to an explanation of the charges and a public hearing before the parish school board...
...learning to hop from the self, the family and the world without getting wet feet. In David Plante's two previous novels of the Francoeur family, these slippery steppingstones have protruded from still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante, a writer living...
...franc's plight has been aggravated by the persistent strength of the dollar. As high U.S. interest rates draw funds into greenbacks, the dollar last week rose to its highest against the Japanese yen in several years, and set postwar records against the French franc, Italian lira and Canadian dollar. According to a closely watched indicator published by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the dollar's trade-weighted value is now higher than it was in 1970. Fulfilling an agreement reached at Versailles, the Reagan Administration last week broke with its free-market doctrine, selling dollars in foreign...
...Spinoza's fault. In 1908 William James Durant, the Massachusetts-born son of unschooled French-Canadian immigrants, was well on his way to fulfilling his mother's dream that he become a priest. Then he came upon a copy of Spinoza's Ethics in a seminary library. So convincing did he find the 17th century Dutch pantheist that he quickly abandoned the church, deciding instead, as he put it, to pursue a "more intellectually honest life." What he found was another calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic...