Word: colonists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadians comprised nearly 30% of Canada's population, they held only 13% of the responsible jobs in civil service. They found that although Canada was officially bilingual, French was a working language only in Quebec-a manifestation of what Quebec Natural Resources Minister Rene Levesque calls "the Kenya colonist outlook." He adds: "There are already people asking why the English have so many rights and privileges in Quebec when the French don't have them elsewhere...
...Ralph Owen Brewster, 73, two-term (1940-52) Republican Senator from Maine, a bland-faced Yankee whose old-timy appearance was belied by his immense skill as a political infighter and an unmatched talent for provoking controversy; while on a Christian Science retreat in Boston. A descendant of Mayflower Colonist William Brewster, ambitious Owen Brewster went into politics at 21, in a series of acrimonious campaigns climbed from state senator to Governor (1924-28), U.S. Representative (1934-40), and finally into the Senate, where as chairman of the War Investigating Committee he built a reputation as a relentless prosecutor...
...talent Greenwich Village actress, and Wife No. 2, an all-talents Hollywood star and nymphomaniac. When Veronica's boy friend shows up with a knife, Shaw stirs up enough plot to feed parts to an army of extras, expertly guides readers through a movie-colonist's Rome, febrile with sex and chicanery. He sauces his book with piquant if dubious notions, e.g., that the Sistine Chapel proves that Michelangelo's only God was Michelangelo. But like children tottering with grown-up luggage, his characters never seem large enough for the emotions they are forced to carry...