By looking in detail at the attitudes and activities of university students in Quebec from 1950 to 1958, Nicole Neatby provides an important new perspective on social and intellectual transformations during the turbulent fifties. Focusing on a particular group of people - including Hubert Aquin, Robert Bourassa, Denis Lazure, and Jacques-Yvan Morin - Neatby makes us aware of the attitudes and initiatives of the young people who became the active participants of the Quiet Revolution.