Word: chicanos
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Though he manifestly prefers to write such hair-raisers, Bradbury is as entertaining on the sunny side of the street as he is in the land of perpetual twilight. One of his stories shares the delight of a poor Chicano who finds his life magically transformed by the purchase of a white suit. In the hilarious Anthem Sprinters, some rollicking Irishmen make a contest out of their penchant for bolting out of a movie theater before the playing of the national anthem at the end of a show. The Picasso Summer acutely satirizes the dilemma of an art lover. Strolling...
...center was founded in 1978 to reverse a high drop-out rate among Black students. Now there are separate centers for Black, Asian, Chicano-Latino and American Indian students...
...Chong have stuck with a successful shtick for years. People, they have discovered, find it a little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...
...Third World Center offers study groups, speaker series, colloquia, and seminars on Asian American, Afro-American, Boricuan, Chicano, Native American, and Third World people's history, culture, and social issues. These enhance the academic environment of Harvard University and Harvard University's commitment ot diversity...
...eight Puerto Rican students (the entire Puerto Rican population at Harvard at that time) walked into the Dean of Admissions Office and successfully demanded the acceptance of more Puerto Rican students along with a corresponding student recruitment program. In 1973 the Chicano recruitment program was established, also as a result of student pressure. However, while Third World student enrollment has generally increased, from less than 5 per cent to 20 per cent of the class of 1984, the population of Native Americans remains less than...