Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race" may have become a major theme of recent history, it does have practical significance; and it must be faced carefully and creatively--if we are ever to undo its consequences. The selection of the terms, African and Afro-American--rather than black, or colored, or Negro, or non-Caucasian, or non-white, or ...--may be interpreted as an attempt at a redefinition that would be neither necessarily racially exclusive nor inclusive, but to which the idea of "race," if applied, would be at best tangential...
...coconut palms. Semicircled by the greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with others in Polynesian prints and Bermuda shorts. The motto on the university gates is fitting: "Above all nations is humanity...
...suit was filed in Sacramento against Crawford Miller, an insurance investigator and landlord who seeks to evict Clifton Hill and his family from their $86-a-month apartment solely because he wants "to rent said premises to members of the Caucasian race." Defendant Miller says the new amendment gives him that right. Plaintiff Hill emphatically disagrees, citing the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment...
...According to you, when a white man murders innocent Africans, he is only living up to his name as a mercenary and spraying savage Simbas, but when an African kills an intruding Caucasian, his condemnable action only shows that all Africans are atrocious cannibals warring against the civilized Christian and humanitarian white race! As a Nigerian, may I ask if you have forgotten the three civil rights martyrs of white Mississippi in the heart of "civilization"? No wonder the Chinese Communists have a case...
...Charles Snow's photo in a shaggy, angular Russian coat and called it a "special Russian academic garb" [Oct. 30]. You were wrong. It is the well-known Caucasian burka (pronounced boor-kah), an everyday, all-purpose sleeveless coat originated by the Circassians, Chechens and other mountaineers of the northern Caucasus. In October 1963, Sir Charles visited Russia to receive from the University of Rostov an honorary doctorate of philological sciences, and to be Mikhail Sholokhov's personal guest. It must have been on that occasion that Sir Charles wore the burka as a bit of local color...