Word: caucasian
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...University professors to members of the medical community. These people are meant to represent a select cross-section of society. Many of the portraits are displayed one next to the other, some even tangent at their sides. With African American educator next to Asian American pharmacist next to Caucasian judge, the juxtaposition of the portraits strives too obviously to emphasize the diversity and unity of the Boston population. Vanderwarker’s portrayal of these individuals is forced rather than sincere, and the contrivance renders the photographs too idealistic...
...concerns were brought to a point in an online petition started last week by Blake L. Johnson ’09 to encourage the hiring of a more diverse tutor staff.But after receiving news of the selection of the Christakis couple, both of whom are Caucasian, Johnson said he was “personally pleased as a sociology concentrator” to hear of the appointment. Biggers, who listed House Master diversity as one of her key campaign planks in an unsuccessful bid for the Undergraduate Council vice presidency this fall, reiterated her hopes yesterday evening that future House Master...
...last Friday was a real live example of what Christian Lander, author of blog and book “Stuff White People Like,” has been talking about in his ongoing list about the white middle class. The Somerville Theatre was packed with a decidedly middle-aged Caucasian audience who seemed to be all dressed up, with a notable lack of irony, for #118—Ugly Sweater Parties. Traoré, a bluesy artist from Mali who sings in a combination of French, English and Bambara, took the stage to the quiet, but appreciative audience...
...western film and fiction, Hong Kong is a fabulously implausible place of strong-jawed Caucasian protagonists and their sinewy Chinese sidekicks. They are pitted in urgent struggles against bloodless communists or mustachioed triads with a penchant for quoting Confucian maxims. Willowy Eurasian sirens in brocade skirts set honey traps at every turn, and the duplicitous locals care for nothing but share-trading and cognac. Great events - a devastating typhoon, a transfer of sovereignty - provide epoch-shifting denouements to stories of unsurpassed venality...
...blacks and spits in his face. Atticus, with ferocious dignity, takes out a handkerchief, wipes off the insult and walks away. In this battle, he is the victor by refusing to fight. The force of eloquence, the power of restraint: in his display of these qualities, Atticus was a Caucasian equivalent of Martin Luther King...