Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Kelley Columbus...
...subsisted on a diet of generally skimpy interim strike papers, crowded around subway kiosks and street-corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus Day advertising, an eight-page news review of the 56 "lost" days and the same somewhat tacky mix of gossip, sports and crime that distinguished the prestrike Post...
...real story of American colonization and expansion has begun to make its way into school curricula. But somehow we never managed to dump Columbus Day. Maybe Columbus Day has become more an ethnic holiday than anything else, the Italian-Americans' St. Patrick's Day; but a more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest...
...this may be true, but it is no excuse for celebrating "Beginning of Our Colonialism Day," as we implicitly, though casually, do on Columbus Day. Certainly, under no circumstances would we want our school children to take a holiday on "First Day of Slavery Day," no matter what it was called...
...Governmental Sub-Committee on Racism, Decolonization, and Apartheid, of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (a consultative body to the United Nations), has declared October 12 International Solidarity Day with the American Indians. Isn't this more appropriate than Columbus...